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Updated: May 8, 2025
The inmates, few in number, are grouped around one on whose white forehead Time's trembling finger has written the word "Death." Over her bends a manly form. There his face is toward you. Ah! You recognise the wanderer the wealth-seeker. What does he here? What to him is the dying one? His wife!
When next the sun went down on that stately mansion which the wealth-seeker had coveted, he was a wanderer again poor, humiliated, broken in spirit. How bitter had been the mockery of all his early hopes! How terrible the punishment he had suffered!
"A proverb for drones." "No, William, it is a proverb for the wise." "Be it for the wise or simple, as commonly, understood, it is no proverb for me. As poor plodder along the way of life, it were impossible for me to know content. So urge no farther, Robert. I am going out into the world a wealth-seeker, and not until wealth is gained do I purpose to return." "What of Ellen, Robert?"
The inmates, few in number, are grouped around one on whose white forehead Time's trembling finger has written the word "Death!" Over her bends a manly form. There his face is towards you. Ah! you recognise the wanderer the wealth-seeker. What does he here? What to him is the dying one? His wife!
It was from the brother of the wealth-seeker; and it was also full of loving words; and it said that, on the morrow, he would come to bear her as his bride to his pleasant home. Happy maiden! Ten years have passed. And what of the wealth-seeker? Has he won the glittering prize? What of the pale-faced maiden he left in tears? Has he returned to her? Does she share now his wealth and honour?
When the next sun went down on that stately mansion, which the wealth-seeker had coveted, he was a wanderer again poor, humiliated, broken in spirit. How bitter had been the mockery of all his early hopes! How terrible the punishment he had suffered!
Poor stricken heart! The other maiden she of the glowing cheeks and dancing eyes held also a letter in her hand. It was from the brother of the wealth-seeker; and it was also full of loving words; and it said that, on the morrow, he would come to bear her as a bride to his pleasant home. Happy maiden! TEN years have passed. And what of the wealth-seeker? Has he won the glittering prize?
I am going out into the world a wealth-seeker, and not until wealth is gained do I purpose to return." "What of Ellen, Robert?" The young man turned quickly toward his brother, visibly disturbed, and fixed his eyes upon him with an earnest expression. "I love her as my life," he said, with a strong emphasis on his words. "Do you love wealth more than life, William?" "Robert!"
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