Manchurian Books

.. She's a Corker.
"We'll be sorry to leave the little house of course. It's a bit like
Adam and Eve, you know. Lord! what a chap old Milton was!
"'The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.'
"It sounds, George.... Providence their guide!... Well--thank goodness
there's no imeedgit prospect of either Cain or Abel!"
"After all, it won't be so bad up there. Not the scenery, perhaps, or
the air we get here, but--LIFE! We've got very comfortable little rooms,
very comfortable considering, and I shall rise. We're not done yet,
we're not beaten; don't think that, George. I shall pay twenty shillings
in the pound before I've done--you mark my words, George,--twenty--five
to you.... I got this situation within twenty-four hours--others
offered. It's an important firm--one of the best in London. I looked to
that. I might have got four or five shillings a week more--elsewhere.
Quarters I could name. But I said to them plainly, wages to go on with,
but opportunity's my game--development.


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