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The Virginians

CHAPTER XVI
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The Baroness will be sure to leave him all her money to spite us, and because he doesn't want it.

Nevertheless, the lad is a good lad enough, and it is not his fault being rich, you know." "He is very simple and modest in his habits for one so wealthy," remarks Maria.
"Rich people often are so," says my lord.

"If I were rich, I often think I would be the greatest miser, and live in rags and on a crust.

Depend on it there is no pleasure so enduring as money-getting.

It grows on you, and increases with old age.


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