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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV MR. STONEMAN No man who has to contend with the world, and support those he loves against it, cares twopence about being taken for a fool by the people he has to contend with. Their opinion to this effect frequently is of some service to him, and very seldom hurts him, unless he wants to get into their employment, or to borrow money from them. And in the latter point it even helps him, when he has good security to give. There is a certain worm, whose name I know not, being all abroad in natural history, whoso habit it is to come out of the ground and give himself an airing late at night. And then if you moisten him from above, in September or October, so grateful is he ? or, if you deny him that lofty feeling, so sensitive ? that he glitters like any glow-worm. With no less amplitude, perhaps, a man who has deep emotions, such as shy ambition, or literary yearnings, or passionate humanity, or true love of a woman, sometimes lets himself out at night, when small things are lost to the eyes, and the larger objects begin to assert themselves. For after all, what are the toys of the day, for which we sweat, and fight, and crawl, and rack our poor brains till they cry for the revolver ? even if we get such gauds, what are they, to make up for the gentle delight we have lost, of the days when we loved all the world, and the moments when some one tried to do the like to us? Now nothing of this kind comes in here, for verily I had been cheated too often to rush into the embrace of theuniverse. But for the life of me, I cannot tell how to explain the behaviour of a man, keener by a thousandfold, and harder than in my worst moments I could long to be, except by such principles, or (if they are not that) such want of principle, such backsliding, such loosening of te...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217200141 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217200141 |
| Weight | 1.28 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.88 In |
| List Price | $25.41 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 396 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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