This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... worldly doings and plannings. Believe one fact, for my nature has sufficient unity of purpose never to do things by halves--that no single plan, act, or thought, is without reference to you. Shall I tell you my ways and means, as calculated to-night, the last night of the year? Selling out of the army will ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... worldly doings and plannings. Believe one fact, for my nature has sufficient unity of purpose never to do things by halves--that no single plan, act, or thought, is without reference to you. Shall I tell you my ways and means, as calculated to-night, the last night of the year? Selling out of the army will supply me with a good sum. Which I mean to put by, letting the interest accumulate, as a provision for accidental illness, or old age, if I live to be old: or for--do you guess? My salary will be about 3001. a-year. Now, half of that ought to suffice a man of my moderate habits. Many a poor clerk, educated, and obliged to appear as a gentleman, has no larger income, and contrives to marry upon it, too, if love seizes hold of him while still in the venturesome stage of existence. We men are strange animals: at twenty, ready to rush into matrimony on any prospects whatever, or none at all; at thirty, having thought better of it, rejoice in our escape; but after forty, when the shadows begin to fall, when the outer world darkens, and the fireside feels comfortless and lone, then, we sit and ponder--I mean, most men. Mine is an individual and special case, not germane to the subject. With all deference to young Tom Turton, his friend Mr. Charteris, and others of the set, which I have lately been among in London, the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds ayear seems to me amply sufficient to maintain in as much comfort as is good for him, and in all the necessary outward decencies of middleclass life, a man without any expensive habits or relations dependent on him, and who has neither wife nor child. Neither wife nor child! As I write them, the words smite hard. To have no wife, no child! Never to seek what the idlest, most drunken loon of a...
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