Author : Charles Reade
Release : 2017-05-13
Genre : Literary Collections
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Christie Johnstone by : Charles Reade
Download or read book Christie Johnstone written by Charles Reade. This book was released on 2017-05-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VISCOUNT IPSDEN, aged twenty-five, income eighteen thousand pounds per year, constitution equine, was unhappy! This might surprise some people; but there are certain blessings, the non-possession of which makes more people discontented than their possession renders happy. Foremost among these are “Wealth and Rank.” Were I to add “Beauty” to the list, such men and women as go by fact, not by conjecture, would hardly contradict me. The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble.