A Daughter of Delilah — page 115: what you’re looking at

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106 “T MUST BUY THE PAINTED JEZEBEL!” joyed himself ad libitum, and I have never stood in his way. I think young men are always better after being per- mitted for a time to go the pace without restraint—-young men, I should say, who eventually inherit vast fortunes. If you chain a boy up, he rushes into excesses when he gains his freedom—excesses which appall those who are unshackled.”’ ‘‘Bah Jove!’’ said his lordship, enthusiastically. ‘‘When you do become my guest, you shall be treated royally, my dear sir! I will show you what itis to liveas gentle- men live who enjoy life to the full. An Englishman at sixty does not look so old as the average American at fifty. Too many hours, Mr. Alston, and too much grasping after the dollar! They are in harness until old Charon comes to ferry their souls to the other shore! In England the country grocer even strives to retire at sixty, and live somewhere away from the scene of his labors, where he potters in a strip of garden with a summer arbor at the end of it in which to smoke the pipe of peace!’’ ‘*T believe you,’’ the financier said. ‘‘And have no in- tention of harassing myself into the grave. Ina couple of months I shall resign myself and my family to your care, my lord.’’ ‘‘T am honored,’’ replied the peer, with a covert smile. They were driven back to the dingy office in Wall street, and then St. Leonards asked for five minutes’ privacy with the great magnate. Already a dozen men with hag- gard faces and glistening eyes were desiring an audience with him. | “Certainly, my lord! SBurrows,’’ to his confidential clerk, ‘‘do not let me be disturbed until I ring.”’ Eomichooks.co