| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 528 |
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Position in any House'. If possible, a premium, five, ten, or twenty pounds - according to their circumstances - would be extracted from the parents. For the first three years, no wages: after that, perhaps two or three shillings a week. At the end of the five years the work of `Making a Man of him' would be completed. Mr Sweater would then congratulate him and assure him that he was qualified to assume a `position' in any House but regret that there was no longer any room for him in his. Business was so bad. Still, if the Man wished he might stay on until he secured a better `position' and, as a matter of generosity, although he did not really need the Man's services, he would pay him ten shillings per week! Provided he was not addicted to drinking, smoking, gambling or the Stock Exchange, or going to theatres, the young man's future was thus assured. Even if he were unsuccessful in his efforts to obtain another position he could save a portion of his |
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