'My dear,' answered Wopples, quietly, 'am I so pure myself that I
can judge others? Who am I,' with an oratorical wave of the hand,
'that I should cast the first stone?--ahem!--from Holy Writ. In
future I will be your father; Mrs Wopples, your mother, and you will
have ten brothers and sisters--all star artistes.'
'How kind you are,' sobbed Kitty, clinging trustfully to him as they
went along.
'I only do unto others as I would be done by,' said Mr Wopples,
solemnly. 'That sentiment,' continued the actor, taking off his hat,
'was uttered by One who, tho' we may believe or disbelieve in His
divinity as a God, will always remain the sublimest type of perfect
manhood the world has ever seen.'
Kitty did not answer, and they walked quickly along; and surely this
one good deed more than compensated for the rest of the actor's
failings.
CHAPTER VI
ON CHANGE
Young Australia has a wonderful love for the excitement of gambling-
-take him away from the betting ring and he goes straight to the
share market to dabble in gold and silver shares. The Great Humbug
Gold Mining Company is floated on the Melbourne market--a perfect
fortune in itself, which influential men are floating in a kind of
semi-philanthropic manner to benefit mankind at large, and
themselves in particular. Report by competent geologists; rich
specimens of the reef exhibited to the confiding public; company of
fifty thousand shares at a pound each; two shillings on application;
two shillings on allotment; the balance in calls which influential
men solemnly assure confiding public will never be needed.
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