[Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald]@TWC D-Link book
Sir Gibbie

CHAPTER XXXVII
3/8

Mr.Sclater did not hear of him what roused very brilliant hopes.

He was one who would demand more reason than reasonable for the most reasonable of actions that involved parting with money; yet he had been known to do a liberal thing for a public object.

Waste was so wicked that any other moral risk was preferable.

Of the three, he would waste mind and body rather than estate.

Man was made neither to rejoice nor to mourn, but to possess.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books