Novel, October 1st, 2001
To survive Mr Glegg, and talk eulogistically of him ...-to have sums of interest coming in more frequently, and secrete it in various corners, baffling to the most ingenious of thieves (for, to Mrs Glegg's mind, banks and strong-boxes would have nullified the pleasure of property-she might as well have taken her food in capsules) ... made a flattering and conciliatory view of the future.
-George Eliot, The Mill bn the Floss 126-27
[T ]he holder of wealth ... may be regarded simply as a mechanical means of collection; or as a money-chest with a slit in it, not only receptant but suctional, se...
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