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The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
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George Gissing
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Two
thousand
pounds!
If,
at
N---'s
age,
I
had
achieved
that
income,
what
would
have
been
the
result
upon
me?
Nothing
but
good,
I
know;
but
what
form
would
the
good
have
taken?
Should
I
have
become
a
social
man,
a
giver
of
dinners,
a
member
of
clubs?
Or
should
I
merely
have
begun,
ten
years
sooner,
the
life
I
am
living
now?
That
is
more
likely.
In
my
twenties
I
used
to
say
to
myself:
what
a
splendid
thing
it
will
be
when
I
am
the
possessor
of
a
thousand
pounds!
Well,
I
have
never
possessed
that
sum--never
anything
like
it--and
now
never
shall.
Yet
it
was
not
an
extravagant
ambition,
methinks,
however
primitive.
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