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Updated: May 29, 2025
"Oh, not much, that is, nothing in particular, except that he is the son of a sugar-broker or something, who was made a peer for some reason or other, and I suppose that is why he is so stuck up, because all the other peers I ever met are just like other people. He is very clever, too, is in the government now, and always hanging about after Mildred.
"He was a wretched animal, I know: I believe he was a sugar-broker, and had just come home from Jamaica." "I believe," said Wenna "I believe that young Lochinvar " She stopped. "What's that?" she said. "What are those two lights up there?" "They're not ghosts: come along, Wenna," said Mabyn, hurriedly.
I bade farewell to Lusitanian dreams and found myself in heart to heart conversation with my neighbour on the right, a florid, simple-minded sugar-broker, a certain next-year's Sheriff of the City of London, whose consuming ambition was to become a member of the Athenæum Club.
They have, in fact, realised in everyday life the awful fate of Mr. Gilbert's discontented sugar-broker, who laid on flesh and 'adipose deposit' until he became converted at last into a perfect rolling ball of globular humanity. The manners of the honey-ant race are very simple.
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