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He hoped she would not marry foolishly; the wealth she must soon inherit hardly favoured her chances in this respect; doubtless she would be surrounded by unprincipled money-hunters. On the whole, it seemed rather a pity that Lashmar had not chosen and won her; there would have been a fitness, one felt, in that alliance.
"Do you think I've got nothing else to do with my money but scatter it to the four winds?" And I stuck my thumbs firmly in the armholes of my waistcoat, and took a dozen turns up and down my store, in order to cool off. "Confound your impudence!" I then repeated, and quietly sat down again in the old arm-chair. On the next day I had any number of calls from money-hunters.
Erskine," added Trefusis, lowering his voice, and turning to the poet, "you are wrong to take part with hucksters and money-hunters against your own nature, even though the attack upon them is led by a man who prefers photography to etching." "But I assure you You quite mistake me," said Erskine, taken aback.
There are, and I am sorry to say it, too many young men in society, who are mere money-hunters young men who would marry an heiress during the first hour of their acquaintance, and marry her, of course, only for her money." "I can hardly credit it, aunt. And I am sure that no young men of my acquaintance are so selfish and mercenary!"
Wherever that class of money-hunters is influential, there is a disease in the constitution of the community. It is vain to complain against the dangerous doctrines of socialism, so long as such money-hunters have any influence upon politics. The genus of Rothschilds has done more for the spread of socialism than its most passionate sectarians.
It is possible that the beautiful dream of the real-estate dealers may come true, for the most avid of all the sportsmen of the earth, the money-hunters, have come up on the bumpy railroad that sometimes lights its sleeping cars with lanterns, and with them have come typewriters, and stenographers, and the art of printing advertisements, and the Golden Rule of those who sell handfuls of earth to hopeful purchasers thousands of miles away "Do others as they would do you."
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