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The Philanderers

CHAPTER XI
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You see, now that Fielding has been made a director and has settled down to work, I have got more time.

In fact, one feels rather lonely at nights.' Mrs.Willoughby was willing to hear more concerning Fielding's merits.
She promptly set herself to belittle the importance of his position and work for the sake of hearing them upheld, and she was not disappointed.
'It's easy enough to laugh at finance, and fashionable into the bargain,' he said.

'But here's the truth of the matter.

Money does to-day what was the work of the sword a century or so ago, and, as far as I can see, does it better.

To my thinking, it should be held in quite as high esteem.


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