Ernest Maltravers — Volume 06

Chapter 1

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Perchance you say that gold's the arch-exceller, And to be rich is sweet?--EURIP. /Ion./, line 641.

* * * 'Tis not to be endured, To yield our trodden path and turn aside, Giving our place to knaves.--/Ibid./, line 648