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Beauchamp’s Career

CHAPTER XII
18/31

The family view is everlastingly the shopkeeper's! Purse, pence, ease, increase of worldly goods, personal importance--the pound, the English pound! Dare do that, and you forfeit your share of Port wine in this world; you won't be dubbed with a title; you'll be fingered at! Lord, Lord! is it the region inside a man, or out, that gives him peace?
Out, they say; for they have lost faith in the existence of an inner.

They haven't it.

Air-sucker, blood-pump, cooking machinery, and a battery of trained instincts, aptitudes, fill up their vacuum.

I repeat, ma'am, why should young Captain Beauchamp spend an hour consulting his family?
They won't approve him; he knows it.

They may annoy him; and what is the gain of that?
They can't move him; on that I let my right hand burn.


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