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Doctor Claudius, A True Story

CHAPTER I
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Moreover, old Lindstrand's will was perfectly unequivocal, and contained none of those ill-natured restrictions about marrying or not marrying, or assuming the testator's name, or anything which could put the legatee to the slightest inconvenience.

But Claudius experienced no sensation of pleasure at finding himself sole master of a million and a half.
It was not that he was foolish enough to despise money, or even to pretend to, as some people do.

He would have felt keenly the loss of his own little store, and would have hated to work for money instead of working for work's sake.

But he had enough, and had always had enough, for his small wants.

He loved beautiful things intensely, but he had no desire to possess them; it was enough that he might see them, and carry away the remembrance.


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