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Updated: May 3, 2025
Through the clouds of smoke he saw his father standing at one end, surrounded by the money-spinning crew, Falconer seated in a chair near him with a black cigar between his lips. The group were laughing and talking loudly, and all had glasses in their hands. Some of the younger men, who had just come from the hall-room, were adding their laughter and chatter to the noise.
Complaints were made of our easygoing standards of morality, and our disposition not to be severe on anybody; of the decay of ideal considerations and the lack of enthusiasm for all but money-spinning. "The gist is here," reiterated one of the speakers: "we insist on tangible proof of everything, of being able to see and feel it to get our dollar's worth, in short.
Why, even with the underlying flattery of his words, should he call me a dreamer? I had worked for my own living as practically as himself in the world, and if not with such financially successful results, only because my aims had never been mere money-spinning.
"Yes, yes. 'Make alliances, and leave me to my business! One knows it all so well. But, mind you, even to the blindest of them, the invasion has meant something." "And the income-tax will mean something to 'em, too," said Sir Morell Strachey. "Yes. But the English purse is deep, and the Englishman has long years of money-spinning freedom from discipline behind him.
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