Out of the Debt of Danger

By Edgeworth, Maria

Book Id: WPLBN0000623818
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Out of the Debt of Danger
Author:	Edgeworth, Maria
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Excerpt: Chapter 1. Leonard Ludgate was the only son and heir of a London haberdasher, who had made some money by constant attendance to his shop. ?Out of debt out of danger,? was the father?s old?fashioned saying. The son?s more liberal maxim was, ?Spend to?day, and spare to?morrow.? Whilst he was under his father?s eye, it was not in his power to live up to his principles; and he longed for the time when he should be relieved from his post behind the counter: a situation which he deemed highly unworthy a youth of his parts and spirit. To imprison his elegant person behind a counter in Cranbourne?alley was, to be sure, in a cruel father?s power; but his tyranny could not extend to his mind; and, whilst he was weighing minikin pins, or measuring out penny ribbon, his soul, leaving all these meaner things, was expatiating in Bond?street or Hyde?park. Whilst his fingers mechanically adjusted the scales, or carelessly slipped the yard, his imagination was galloping a fine bay with Tom Lewis, or driving Miss Belle Perkins in a gig.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: OUT OF THE DEBT OF DANGER, 1 -- Maria Edgeworth, 1 -- OUT OF THE DEBT OF DANGER, 1 -- Chapter I, 1 -- Chapter II, 9 -- Chapter III, 14