The Red Mouse: A Mystery Romance. E-book. Formato PDF - 9780243703081

Un ebook di William Hamilton Osborne edito da Forgotten Books, 2017

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The Red Mouse: A Mystery Romance. E-book. Formato PDF ebook di William Hamilton Osborne

For notwithstanding his very moderate circum stances, the elder Challoner had been that rarest of mortals — a man blissfully content with his lot in life, and, one who seldom missed an opportunity to deplore the insatiable craze of the rich for more riches, forever protesting that blatant commercialism, haste and artificiality were the gods of the present day; and no picture in their gallery of lasting im« pressions stood out more vividly than the one in which, surrounded by a group of young fellows, who had got him going, as they phrased it, he was declaim ing against — what was merely his pet hobby in an other form — the egregious folly of poor young men seeking riches through marriage.