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CHAPTER V
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We'll find a house somewhere out Green Lanes way, or in Highbury or Holloway.' He laughed again.
'So there's the best of it--the worst of it, as you say.

Just take a night to turn it over.

Most likely I shall go to Belwick again to-morrow afternoon.' He paused, and his mother, after bending her head to bite off an end of cotton, asked-- 'You'll tell Emma ?' 'I shall go round to-night.' A little later Richard left the house for this purpose.

His step was firmer than ever, his head more upright Walking along the crowded streets, he saw nothing; there was a fixed smile on his lips, the smile of a man to whom the world pays tribute.

Never having suffered actual want, and blessed with sanguine temperament, he knew nothing of that fierce exultation, that wrathful triumph over fate, which comes to men of passionate mood smitten by the lightning-flash of unhoped prosperity.
At present he was well-disposed to all men; even against capitalists and 'profitmongers' he could not have railed heartily Capitalists?
Was he not one himself?
Aye, but he would prove himself such a one as you do not meet with every day; and the foresight of deeds which should draw the eyes of men upon him, which should shout his name abroad, softened his judgments with the charity of satisfied ambition.


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