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Chapter Thirty.
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Reveals some Astonishing Facts and their Consequences.
Sorrow and trouble now began to descend1 upon Mr Thomas Donnithorne like a thick cloud.
Reduced from a state of affluence2 to one bordering on absolute poverty, the old man’s naturally buoyant spirit almost gave way, and it needed all the attentions and the cheering influence of his good wife and sweet Rose Ellis to keep him from going (as he often half-jestingly threatened) to the end of Cape3 Cornwall and jumping into the sea.
“It’s all over with me, Oliver,” said he one morning, after the return of his nephew from London. “A young fellow like you may face up against such difficulties, but what is an old man to do? I can’t begin the world over again; and as for the shares I have in the various mines, they’re not worth the paper they’re writ4 upon.”
“But things may take a turn,” suggested Oliver; “this is not the first time the mines have been in a poor condition, and the price of tin low. When things get very bad they are likely to get better, you know. Even now there seems to be some talk among the miners of an improved state of things. I met Maggot yesterday, and he was boasting of having found a monstrous5 bunch, which, according to him, is to be the making of all our fortunes.”
Mr Donnithorne shook his head.
“Maggot’s geese are always swans,” he said; “no, no, Oliver, I have lost all hope of improvement. There are so many of these deceptive6 mines around us just now—some already gone down, and some going—that the public are losing confidence in us, and, somewhat unfairly, judging that, because a few among us are scoundrels, we are altogether a bad lot.”
“What do you think of Mr Clearemout’s new mine?” asked Oliver.
“I believe it to be a genuine one,” said the old gentleman, turning a somewhat sharp glance on his nephew. “Why do you ask?”
“Because I doubt it,” replied Oliver.
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