FORTUNE.

A Romance of Life.

BY D. T. COULTON, ESQ.

"Je rends au public ce qu'il m'a prêté: j'ai emprunté de lui la matière de
cet ouvrage; il est juste que, l'ayant achevé avec toute l'attention pour la vérité
dont je suis capable, et qu'il mérite de moi, je lui en fasse la restitution."

LA BRUYERE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR HENRY COLBURN,

BY HIS SUCCESSORS, HURST AND BLACKETT,
13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

LONDON:

Printed by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street.

FORTUNE.

CHAPTER I.

He's an infinite and endless liar; an hourly promise-breaker;
The owner of no one good quality.

SHAKSPEARE.

MR. LANETON's dinner party went off in the most satisfactory manner. Tremore and John Smith were present, and his table was well filled with persons distinguished in their several ways of life. Mr. Laneton had a high respect for talent-talent, that is, of a certain order. He divided ability into two kinds that which does, and that which does not, promote success in life. The one kind he esteemed as much as he despised the other. With the most celebrated moneymaker of the last age, he regarded with positive dislike and contempt every sort of ingenuity which did not tend to the realiza

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