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There is that jackass Fred Bullock is going to marry Maria there's Goldmore, the East India Director, there's Dipley, in the tallow trade OUR trade," George said, with an uneasy laugh and a blush. "Curse the whole pack of money-grubbing vulgarians! I fall asleep at their great heavy dinners. I feel ashamed in my father's great stupid parties.
Now his dollars jingled in every state of the Union and they jingled in his own home, too, almost as the only evidences that the home was his. For Willoughby, pursuing money everywhere, seemed to have lost interest in all else but his money-grubbing, just as Willoughby's wife, excepting for the same money-grubbing, seemed to have lost all interest in him.
We spend twenty, fifty times as much as we can possibly enjoy; and you have more than we could possibly spend. Why shouldn't a man with financial genius be like men with other kinds of genius? Why should he be the only one to stay down on the level with dull, money-grubbing, sordid kinds of people? Why shouldn't he have ideals?" He made no reply.
"The fact of it is," the novelist commented, "Francis Ledsam isn't callous enough to be associated with you money-grubbing dispensers of the law. He'd be all right as Public Prosecutor, a sort of Sir Galahad waving the banner of virtue, but he hates to stuff his pockets at the expense of the criminal classes." "Who the mischief are the criminal classes?" a police court magistrate demanded.
The mass of the pseudo-Italian army must be with us. As for foreign interference, its repetition seems to me impossible. The brotherhood in the different countries, if well guided, could alone prevent it. There should be at once a manifesto addressed to the peoples. They have become absorbed in money-grubbing and what they call industry. The external life of a nation is its most important one.
"I suppose he is going to marry Miss Selincourt, and that is why he puts on such a fearful lot of cheek. Downright horrid money-grubbing, I call it, for before she came he was always " "Always what?" demanded Katherine sharply.
Whatever Walker sends in they're sure to accept it. They've more confidence, I feel sure, in Walker than in anybody." A light broke in on Walter Tyrrel's mind. "Then the only way," he said, looking up, "would be ... to work upon Walker; induce him NOT to send in, if that can be managed." "But it can't be," Sir Edward answered, with brisk promptitude. "Walker's a money-grubbing chap.
I hate the place; I hate it a nasty, gaudy, vulgar place, in a vulgar suburb, where nothing but money-grubbing is thought of from morning, noon, till night; how much percentage can be got out of everything; cut down the salaries of the employees; work everything on the most economic basis; it does not matter what the employees suffer so long as seven per cent. dividend is declared at the end of the year.
It may be a mistaken ideal, but whatever it is, it is a desperate effort to break down a system which anarchists imagine is at the root of all the bribery, corruption, flunkeyism and money-grubbing of the world. Moreover, the Anarchist carries his own life in his hand, and the risk he runs can scarcely be for his pleasure.
You'll see in no time what I mean." "I can already imagine it, sir," I said sympathetically. "It's not for want of example," he added. "Scores of times I show them better ways, but they're eaten up with commercialism money-grubbing." I perceived him to be a person of profound and interesting views, and it was with regret I left him to bully Cousin Egbert into evening dress.
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