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Title: The Touchstone of Fortune
Author: Charles Major
Release Date: December 3, 2004 [eBook #14242]
Language: English
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THE TOUCHSTONE OF FORTUNE
Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, who lived, thrived, and fell in the
Doleful Reign of the so-called Merry Monarch, Charles II
by
CHARLES MAJOR
Author of _When Knighthood Was In Flower_, etc.
1912
To My Wife
CHAPTER I
DAUGHTERS AND POVERTY
Goddess Fortune seems to delight in smiling on a man who risks his
all, including life, perhaps, on a desperate chance of, say one to one
hundred. If her Ladyship frowns and he loses, his friends call him a
fool; if he wins, they say he is a lucky devil and are pleased to share
his prosperity if he happens to be of a giving disposition. Lucky? No!
He has simply minted his courage.
The most remarkable illustration of these truths that has ever come to my
knowledge is my friend George Hamilton, the second son in this generation
of the illustrious House of Hamilton, Count Anthony being its present
head.
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