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Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures

CHAPTER III
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Officers were immediately despatched for his arrest, and in a few days he was brought back as a criminal.

In his ruin, many others were involved.
Among these was his father-in-law, who was stripped of every dollar in his old age.
"Slow and sure--slow and sure.

Yes, Watson was right." Thus mused Mr.Johnson, a few months afterwards, on hearing that Mortimer was arraigned before the criminal court, to stand his trial for forgery.
"It is the safest and the best way, and certainly leads to prosperity.

Ah, me! How are we drawn aside into false ways through our eagerness to obtain wealth by a nearer road than that of patient industry in legitimate trade.

Where one is successful, a dozen are ruined by this error.


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