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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 THE LAW Hra tranquil tone disguised the immense anarchy within. Silas 'Angmering had evidently been what is called a profiteer. He had made his money out of the war. And Silas was an Englishman. While Englishmen, and?later?Americans, had given up lives, sanity, fortunes, limbs, eyesight, health, Silas had gained riches. There was nothing highly unusual in this. Mr. Prohack had himself seen, in the very club in which he was now entertaining Softly Bishop, a man who had left an arm in France chatting and laughing with a man who had picked up over a million pounds by following the great principle that a commodity is worth what it will fetch when people want it very badly and there is a shortage of it. Mr. Prohack too had often chatted and laughed with this same picker-up of a million, who happened to be a quite jolly and generous fellow. Mr. Prohack would have chatted and laughed with Barabbas, convinced as he was that iniquity is the result of circumstances rather than of deliberate naughtiness. He seldom condemned. He had greatly liked Silas Angmering, who was a really educated and a well-intentioned man with a queer regrettable twist in his composition. That Silas should have profiteered when he got the chance was natural. Most men would do the same. Most heroes would do the same. The man with one arm would conceivably do the same. But between excusing and forgiving a brigand (who has not despoiled you), and sharing his plunder, there was a gap, a chasm. Few facts gave Mr. Prohack a more serene and proud satisfaction than the fact that he had materially lost through the war. .He was positively glad that he had lost, and that the Government, his employer, had treated him badly. . . . And now to become the heir of a profiteer Nor was that all To become the co...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217851145 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217851142 |
| Weight | 0.84 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 In |
| List Price | $18.89 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 256 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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