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consider the blow they can give you upon the heart. You return from a
little careless holiday abroad, and turn over the page of a newspaper,
and against the name of that distant, vague-conceived railway in
mortgages upon which you have embarked the bulk of your capital, you
see instead of the familiar, persistent 95-6 (varying at most to 93
ex. div.) this slightly richer arrangement of marks: 76 1/2--78 1/2.
It is like the opening of a pit just under your feet!
So, too, Mr. Polly's happy sense of limitless resources was
obliterated suddenly by a vision of this tracery:
"298"
instead of the
"350"
he had come to regard as the fixed symbol of his affluence.
It gave him a disagreeable feeling about the diaphragm, akin in a
remote degree to the sensation he had when the perfidy of the
red-haired schoolgirl became plain to him. It made his brow moist.
"
Going down a vortex!" he whispered.
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