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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: cultivated, but in one respect their good breeding had the superiority over that of finer folk. They never questioned my right to be saving, nor seemed to think the worse of me for being poor. . Herr Heinfetter had counselled me to stay a few days, at Vienna, and provide myself with clothes more suitable to my new condition .than those I was wearing. If old Ignaz Oppovich saw a silk-lined coat, he'd soon send you about your business, said he; ''and as to that fine watch-chain and its gay trinkets, you have only to appear with it once to get your dismissal. It was not easy, with my little experience of life, to see how these things should enter into an estimate of me, or why Herr Ignaz should concern him with other attributes of mine than such as touched my clerkship; but as I was entering on a world where all was new, where not oaly the people, but their prejudices and their likings were all strange to me, I resolved to approach them in an honest spirit, and with a desire to conform to them as well as I was able. Lest the name Norcott appearing in the newspapers in my fathers case should connect me with his story, Heinfetter advised me to call myself after my mother's family, which sounded, besides, less highly born, and I had my passport made out in the name of Digby Owen. .. ' Mind, lad, said the banker, as he parted with me, give yourself no airs with Ignaz Oppovich; do not turn up your nose at his homely fare, or handle his coarse napkin as if it hurt your skin, as I have seen you do hero. From his door to destitution there is only a step, and bethink yourself twict, .before you take it. I have done all I mean to do by you, more than I shall ever be paid for. And now good-by. This sort of language grated very harshly on my ears at first, but I had...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458978066 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458978060 |
| Weight | 1.91 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.32 In |
| List Price | $22.40 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 596 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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