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Low in the distance, deep but now rising blast on blast, its waves of sound beat into the city into millions of ears of sleepers and watchers, the well, the sick and the dying, the dead, the lovers, the schemers, the dreamers, the toilers, the spenders and wasters. I shut my eyes and saw the huge liner on which Joe was sailing moving slowly out of its slip.
"I must tell you that we are as rich as Baron de Nucingen himself. But the 'Imitation of Jesus Christ' forbids us to regard our wealth as our own. We are only the spenders of it; and if we had any pride in being that, we should not be worthy of dispensing it. It would not be transire benefaciendo; it would be inward enjoyment.
Josie went to dinner as soon as the dining room opened. When she came out she met Abe Kauffman going in. He stopped and spoke to her. "Sell any brains yet?" in a jocular way. "Not to-day," she replied, with her innocent, baby-like stare. "Well, I didn't sell any suspenders, either. There are no spenders for suspenders. Ha, ha, ha!" "That doesn't seem to worry you much," asserted Josie, pointedly.
"Oh, call it what you like foolish pride perhaps, but I wanted to stay here and finish as I'd begun with the best of the spenders. That's what I've been a spender. I couldn't be otherwise I was brought up that way. So, when I found I couldn't get any money any other way I began stealing. I'm not looking for sympathy I'm telling the plain truth. I took your watch, Dunk. I took those books.
So sure enough I wrote 'em a parcel o' letters, pickin' out about the most persistent spenders the town could show, an' it made me laugh when I pictured Bill tryin' to lug home the list o' stuff they'd load him up with.
You will find my father extremely difficult, but some of our younger men would love it. "And," she went on; "there are American women who'd love it too. We're petted. We're kept out of things. We aren't placed. We don't get enough to do. We're spenders and wasters not always from choice.
I started on two fifty. But I forgot you don't know the business?" "No nothing about it," was her innocent, honest answer. "Ah well, then nine dollars eh?" Susan hesitated. "You can make quite a neat little bunch on the outside you can. We cater only to the best trade, and the buyers who come to us are big easy spenders. But I'm supposed to know nothing about that.
And another married an electrician that cops out forty a week. You'll find it a splendid chance to make nice friends good spenders. And I'm a practical man." "I suppose there isn't any work I could do in the daytime?" "Not here." "Perhaps " "Not nowhere, so far as I know. That is, work you'd care to do. The factories and stores is hard on a woman, and she don't get much.
"Cap," he said, appealingly, "they've gone and done it, and all the sentiment of the town is one way in the matter. What's the use of buckin' your own people as you are doin'? Get onto the band-wagon along with the rest of us. It's goin' to be a good thing for the town. It will bring a lot of spenders in here that day. They'll leave money here. It will be a good time all 'round.
They are not the payers of taxes; they are the spenders and the enjoyers of the taxes, and therefore the Government in India is in the most unfortunate position possible for the fulfilment of the great duties that must devolve upon every wise and just Government.
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