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Updated: July 23, 2025
When this period of truce was ended, when the plutocrat was once more absorbed in controlling the political as well as the commercial machinery of the nation, then his eyes took on a snakish, greenish hue, and one could plainly read in them the cunning, the avariciousness, the meanness, the insatiable thirst for gain that had made this man the most unscrupulous money-getter of his time.
Leaning forward he knocked the ash from his cigar and brought himself confidentially nearer. "An open-air sanatorium," he announced triumphantly. "For tuberculosis patients. There are lots of them," and he waved his arm in a wide half circle, "coming out of the East on the run, scared to death, and with more or less money in their pockets. It's a big proposition, a sure money-getter."
But he had prospered in his profession; and then had died with amazing suddenness, leaving his estate in an almost hopeless mess. Robert Hillyer had tackled the problem, Robert, the alert, the busy, the supremely confident, the typical money-getter of the money-worshipping metropolis.
She could not have borne to see him reduced to a mere money-getter, yet she was not sorry that their small means forbade the cultivation of an ornamental leisure. In his college days Dick had troubled her by a superabundance of tastes, a restless flitting from one form of artistic expression to another.
Up to the time of John Mallathorpe's death, they had lived in very humble fashion lived, indeed, on an allowance from their well-to-do kinsman for Richard Mallathorpe had been as much of a waster as his brother had been of a money-getter.
He's young yet, and very new to business, but you remember it was he who first suggested the Through Line, and worked it out." In brief, Napper Tandy was a very greedy money-getter, and nothing else.
You're lucky, Hooker that's all there is to it. You'd 'a' drifted about for years and never got the chance to hook up with Twitter-or-Tweet. And here you are, right from the backwoods, makin' yourself solid the first crack outa the box with the original money-getter. Stay by me till I get a toehold, and I'll make you." Hiram was at a loss how to take him.
To the man of business all the world is a fable but the Stock Exchange: to the money-getter nothing has a real existence that he cannot convert into a tangible feeling, that he does not recognise as property, that he cannot 'measure with a two-foot rule or count upon ten fingers. The want of thought, of imagination, drives the practical man upon immediate realities: to the poet or philosopher all is real and interesting that is true or possible, that can reach in its consequences to others, or be made a subject of curious speculation to himself!
Thus some of the most conscienceless rogues in a generation go down to posterity with expurgated tablets to their memory, which of course is best for posterity. So I do not mind now admitting that William was a poor money-getter, but he actually did have the virtues that look well recorded on his tombstone.
Once there was a Wife who gave the Money-Getter a Vacation by going into the Country for a Month. Dearie took her to the Train, and all the way she kept saying that it did not seem just Right to romp away on a Pleasure Trip and leave him Shell-Roaded.
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