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KNOWINGNESS. But I mention this only as a repressing influence, to
which I certainly should not have been such a fool as to yield, had
I seen the way otherwise clear. For a man by showing how to use
money, or rather simply by using money aright, may do more good than
by refusing to possess it, if it comes to him in an entirely
honourable way, that is, in such a case as mine, merely as an
accident of his history. But I was glad to feel pretty sure that if
I should be so blessed as to marry Miss Oldcastle--which at the time
whereof I now write, seemed far too gorgeous a castle in the clouds
ever to descend to the earth for me to enter it--the POOR of my own
people would be those most likely to understand my position and
feelings, and least likely to impute to me worldly motives, as
paltry as they are vulgar, and altogether unworthy of a true man.
So the time went on. I called once or twice on Mr Stoddart, and
found him, as I thought, better. But he would not allow that he was.
Dr Duncan said he was better, and would be better still, if he would
only believe it and exert himself.
He continued in the same strangely irritable humour.
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