Still I do not see my way to as
much money as I want, and Pryer suggests that as we can hardly earn
more now we must get it by a judicious series of investments. Pryer
knows several people who make quite a handsome income out of very
little or, indeed, I may say, nothing at all, by buying things at a
place they call the Stock Exchange; I don't know much about it yet,
but Pryer says I should soon learn; he thinks, indeed, that I have
shown rather a talent in this direction, and under proper auspices
should make a very good man of business. Others, of course, and not I,
must decide this; but a man can do anything if he gives his mind to
it, and though I should not care about having more money for my own
sake, I care about it very much when I think of the good I could do
with it by saving souls from such horrible torture hereafter. Why,
if the thing succeeds, and I really cannot see what is to hinder it,
it is hardly possible to exaggerate its importance, nor the
proportions which it may ultimately assume," etc., etc.
Again I asked Ernest whether he minded my printing this. He
winced, but said, "No, not if it helps you to tell your story: but
don't you think it is too long?"
I said it would let the reader see for himself how things were going
in half the time that it would take me to explain them to him.
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