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Plain of Ringlets? (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Plain of Ringlets? The wholesome maxim, that it is well to be off with the old love before we are on with the new, applying to a certain extent to the fair as well as to the ruder sex, we may here say a few words about our hero No. 1, ere we bring N O. 2 upon the Iapz'S. Jasper Goldspink, if not a smart youth, had some very excellent attri butes. He was the son of a rich banker, and it is remarkable, that though people will abuse most other callings, it is a rare thing to hear anyone say a word against a banker, simply, we suppose, because abusing a banker would be symptomatic of having been refused a loan. Jasper therefore was a very great man in the country, and only required the aid of Lady Airyworth, Lady Plurnage, or some other great leader of fashion, to make him pass muster in town. It is singular how people worship wealth even though there is no chance of getting any of it them selves. If Jasper hadn't been rich, or on the highway to riches, such an ordinary every-day looking youth would never have attracted attention at all; as it was, people winked and nudged each other as he passed, and said, Oh that will be a rich man or, Oh, what a Sight of money that man will have l, He walked the streets with a strut and a stare, that as good as said, I'll be a deal richer than you. Old Goldspink was one of the cautious money-scraping order of bankers, as contra-distinguished to the go-a-head Scotch school, who run a-muck at everything. He thought of nothing but money, revolving a thing over in his mind many times before he did it, always in a doubtful point calling in the, aid of figures, beginning with his favourite apophthegm of sivin and four being elivin, and so piling up numbers until he arrived at a satisfactory solution of the mystery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www. forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgott.
Excerpt from Plain of Ringlets? The wholesome maxim, that it is well to be off with the old love before we are on with the new, applying to a certain extent to the fair as well as to the ruder sex, we may here say a few words about our hero No. 1, ere we bring N O. 2 upon the Iapz'S. Jasper Goldspink, if not a smart youth, had some very excellent attri butes. He was the son of a rich banker, and it is remarkable, that though people will abuse most other callings, it is a rare thing to hear anyone say a word against a banker, simply, we suppose, because abusing a banker would be symptomatic of having been refused a loan. Jasper therefore was a very great man in the country, and only required the aid of Lady Airyworth, Lady Plurnage, or some other great leader of fashion, to make him pass muster in town. It is singular how people worship wealth even though there is no chance of getting any of it them selves. If Jasper hadn't been rich, or on the highway to riches, such an ordinary every-day looking youth would never have attracted attention at all; as it was, people winked and nudged each other as he passed, and said, Oh that will be a rich man or, Oh, what a Sight of money that man will have l, He walked the streets with a strut and a stare, that as good as said, I'll be a deal richer than you. Old Goldspink was one of the cautious money-scraping order of bankers, as contra-distinguished to the go-a-head Scotch school, who run a-muck at everything. He thought of nothing but money, revolving a thing over in his mind many times before he did it, always in a doubtful point calling in the, aid of figures, beginning with his favourite apophthegm of sivin and four being elivin, and so piling up numbers until he arrived at a satisfactory solution of the mystery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www. forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgott.
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