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'Hold: there's money for thee to spend.'

''Tis silver: I disdain it.'

'How now hast thou the gold?'

'Yes.'

'But came it freely?'

THE JEW OF MALTA

THE

CORNER IN GOLD:

IN A LETTER

FROM A GENTLEMAN OF EAST LOTHIAN IN TOWN TO HIS PRETTY COUSIN IN THE COUNTRY.

So it seems, my dear Meg, that you 'cannot make head or tail of Bimetallism.' You assure me, that notwithstanding the most prodigious and superhuman exertions you invariably rise from the study of your authorities with a feeling of utter despair and a splitting headache. Your difficulties, you say, have refused to disappear, although you have actually purchased Mr. Robert Giffen's Case against Bimetallism, and read it, by the aid of wet towels and green tea, three times

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'quite through' from cover to cover. At length, like a drowning man catching at straws, or a vessel in imminent danger of foundering, and throwing out signals of urgent distress, you have abandoned all further effort, left off struggling ineffectually with a superior agency, and appealed to myself; declaring emphatically that unless I can help you to bring order into your chaos, you will presently burn all your books, resign the presidency of the Fairyknowe Ladies' Debating Society, cease to attend the lectures of the University Extension (a penalty all the greater because, as you tell me, the young Oxford lecturer next on the list is reported to be extremely goodlooking), forswear the higher culture, and devote yourself to sick-nursing, or some other pursuit at once more enlivening, more suited to your intellect, and more fertile in solid results, than what you petulantly term

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