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Updated: May 2, 2025
By the time Canadian and British capital came on the scene in Kootenay the cream had been skimmed from the profits, and the mines had reached the wildcat stage of beautifully gilded and engraved stock certificates taking the place of real profits of almost worth-nothing shares in worthless holes in the ground selling on a face value of a next-door profit-yielding neighbor.
And where the palace of the Tuileries once stood the pigeons now call to each other beneath the trees, while, near at hand, lolls on the public seat he whom France has always with her, the vaurien the worth-nothing. So passes the glory of the world. It is not a good thing to be born in a palace, nor to live in one.
The French worth-nothing is, in a word, worth less than any of his brothers much less than the Italian, who is quite easily roused to a display of temper and a rusty knife and more nearly approaches the supreme calm of the Moor, who, across the Mediterranean, will sit all day and stare at nothing with any man in the world.
And where the palace of the Tuileries once stood the pigeons now call to each other beneath the trees, while, near at hand, lolls on the public seat he whom France has always with her, the vaurien the worth-nothing. So passes the glory of the world. It is not a good thing to be born in a palace, nor to live in one.
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