Some rich men starve to-day for fear of starving to-morrow, (as a man
leaps into the sea to avoid being drowned) and the indigent often
consume in an hour what they may feel the want of a year: as if old
people hoarded money because they cannot want it, and young men throw it
away because it is necessary to their subsistence.
He is rich enough that needs neither flatter nor borrow, and truly rich
that is satisfied: want lies in desire.
History tells us of illustrious villains, but there never was an
illustrious miser in nature.
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THE VICTIM OF MAGICAL DELUSION;
_OR, INTERESTING MEMOIRS OF MIGUEL, DUKE DE CA*I*A._
Unfolding Many Curious Unknown Historical Facts.
_Translated from the German of Tschink._
(Continued from page 155.)
O! Why did he request me _such_ a manner to make him a sacrifice which
would have rendered me miserable! I wished then the first time in my
life, that he had spoken to me in a menacing, domineering, or only in a
harsh tone, then I should have had a pretext for resisting him, and
enforcing my own will. But how could I have had the courage to
contradict that tender solicitation, that entreating persuasion of a
father. And yet, was I not necessitated to do something worse, to
counteract my parent? I never felt more strongly than at that moment,
that it was utterly impossible for me to renounce the possession of
Amelia. Alas! never was a situation more unfortunate than mine, and
never has a human heart been reduced to such a dreadful conflict with
itself by two people so dear as my father and Amelia were to me.
I looked around with weeping eyes in search of a person to whom I could
unbosom my straitened heart. I went to the Marquis of Ferei*a.*
[* Here I have expunged a picture which the painter has drawn of me,
with too much partiality.