[Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookCan You Forgive Her? CHAPTER IV 8/23
He had spent much money and had apparently made none, and had been, as all his friends declared, on the high road to ruin.
Aunt Macleod had taken her judgement from this period of his life when she had spoken of him as a man who never did anything.
But he had come forth again suddenly as a working man; and now they who professed to know, declared that he was by no means poor.
He was in the City every day; and during the last two years had earned the character of a shrewd fellow who knew what he was about, who might not perhaps be very mealy-mouthed in affairs of business, but who was fairly and decently honourable in his money transactions. In fact, he stood well on 'Change. And during these two years he had stood a contest for a seat in Parliament, having striven to represent the metropolitan borough of Chelsea, on the extremely Radical interest.
It is true that he had failed, and that he had spent a considerable sum of money in the contest.
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