Excerpt from The Red Mouse: A Mystery Romance For notwithstanding his very moderate circum stances, the elder Challoner had been that rarest of mortals - a man blissfully content with his lot in life, and, one who seldom missed an opportunity to deplore the insatiable craze of the rich for more riches, forever protesting that blatant commercialism, haste and artificiality were the gods of the present day; and no picture in their gallery of lasting im pressions stood out more vividly than the one in which, surrounded by a ...
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Excerpt from The Red Mouse: A Mystery Romance For notwithstanding his very moderate circum stances, the elder Challoner had been that rarest of mortals - a man blissfully content with his lot in life, and, one who seldom missed an opportunity to deplore the insatiable craze of the rich for more riches, forever protesting that blatant commercialism, haste and artificiality were the gods of the present day; and no picture in their gallery of lasting im pressions stood out more vividly than the one in which, surrounded by a group of young fellows, who had got him going, as they phrased it, he was declaim ing against - what was merely his pet hobby in an other form - the egregious folly of poor young men seeking riches through marriage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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