Here Are Ladies (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Whatever is mine, said he, must be entirely mine. If it is alive I claim its duty to the last respiration of its breath, and if it is dead I cannot permit a mortgage on it. Have you a claim on anything belonging to me? Then you may have it entirely, I must have all of it or none.

He was a stockbroker, and, by the methods peculiar to that mysterious profession, he had captured a sufficiency of money to enable him regard the future with calmness and his fellow-creatures with condescension - perhaps the happiest state to which a certain humanity can attain.

So far matters were in order. There remained nothing to round his life into the complete, harmonious circle except a wife; but as a stated income has the choice of a large supply, he Shortly discovered a lady whose qualifications were such as would orna ment any, however exalted, position - She was sound in wind and limb. She spoke grammar with the utmost precision, and she could play the piano with such skill that it was difficult to explain why she played it badly.

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