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Updated: May 25, 2025
Bit by bit that ancient patrimony had sloughed off in successive generations, lost to lust, to the gambler's folly, the spendthrift's weakness. "Hard, is it not?" questioned his host. "I'm the man that should have Doom at its very best, for I could bide among my people here, and like them, and make them like me, without a thought of rambling about the world.
You have played your cards badly as usual. You might have had him if you had chosen." "I have never had the least intention of casting myself at Sir John's head," said Helen, scornfully. "You can cast yourself, as you call it, at that good-for-nothing young spendthrift's head fast enough if you choose it." "I don't in the least know whom you mean," she said, shortly. The old man chuckled.
You hear how he inherited the Rajah's treasures from a mistress who died strangely, swiftly, conveniently, as soon so he had wearied of her, and a new favourite had begun to exercise her influence. Such things are done in the East dynasties annihilated, kingdoms overthrown, poison or bowstring used at will, to gratify a profligate's passion, or pay for a spendthrift's extravagances.
On the whole budget of exploded poeticals is now legibly inscribed "to be kept till called for," a period rather more indefinite than the promise of a spendthrift's payment. Let them rest in peace, those unfortunate poetics!
But it was not in the Ad-Visor's character to quit an enterprise before it was wholly completed. So long as the two bandits were on their way to cash the young spendthrift's checks Jones had heard from the victim a brief account of the extortion success was not fully won. "We've got to get that money back," he said to Captain Funcke with conviction. The hunter made no reply in words.
"Not a penny," he said gaily. "The day after to-morrow I will buy you some myself, but I know where that last sovereign went to." Hamilton took care of the old spendthrift's money, and not only then but as long as he lived. "The Secretary of the Treasury is my banker," said Steuben, years after. "My Hamilton takes care of my money when he cannot take care of his own."
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