The Novels of Charles Lever
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Volume: 17 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1895 Original Publisher: Little, Brown, and Co. Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or ...
MoreVolume: 17 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1895 Original Publisher: Little, Brown, and Co. Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V. IN LONDON. Seeking one's fortune is a very gambling sort of affair. It is leavmg so much to chance, trusting so implicitly to what is called "luck," that it makes all individual exertion a merely secondary process, -- a kind of "auxiliary screw " to aid the gale of Fortune. It was pretty much in this spirit that Tony Butler arrived in London; nor did the aspect of that mighty sea of humanity serve to increase his sense of self-reliance. It was not merely his loneliness that he felt in that great crowd, but it was his utter inutility -- his actual worthlessness -- to all others. If the gamester's sentiment, to try his luck, was in his heart, it was the spirit of a very poor gambler, who had but one "throw " to risk on fortune; and, thus thinking, he set out for Downing Street. If he was somewhat disappointed in the tumble-down, ruinous old mass of building which held the state secrets of the empire, he was not the less awestruck as he found himself at the threshold where the great men who guide empires were accustomed to pass in. With a bold effort he swung back the glass door of the inner hall, and found himself in presence of a very well-whiskered, imposing-looking man, who, seated indolently in a deep armchair, was busily engaged in reading the "Times." A glance over the top of the paper was sufficient to assure this great official that it was not necessary to interrupt his perusal of...
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