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The Way We Live Now

CHAPTER III - THE BEARGARDEN
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They require ready money or even worse than that in respect to annual payments,--money in advance; and the young baronet had been absolutely forced to restrict himself.

He, as a matter of course, out of those to which he had possessed the right of entrance, chose the worst.

It was called the Beargarden, and had been lately opened with the express view of combining parsimony with profligacy.

Clubs were ruined, so said certain young parsimonious profligates, by providing comforts for old fogies who paid little or nothing but their subscriptions, and took out by their mere presence three times as much as they gave.

This club was not to be opened till three o'clock in the afternoon, before which hour the promoters of the Beargarden thought it improbable that they and their fellows would want a club.


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