What Next?, Or, the Honest Thief

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Original Publisher: Press of Transylvania Printing Co. Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Short Stories Literary Criticism / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Chapter III. ''The friends thou liHHt, nnd their adoption tried, Grapple them by the Hou! with hooks of steel." -- Shakespeare. "True happiness Consists not In the multitude of friends, But In the worth and choice." -- Jonnon. I NOTWITHSTANDING thepleasant interview which U John Parsons had with his college President, u when he found himself again alone, and he had had (§i time for his mind to retire within itself, and make up a kind of inventory of things generally, he found himself a little dispirited over the outlook. Having no money to invest in a business which would pay a dividend upon the invested capital, he felt he would be compelled to embark in some kind of an enterprise which would not require an immediate demand for funds. The kind of capital which John possessed, a good 'education, was not a thing upon which a commercial value could be placed, and consequently, at least in an unused state, it was valueless, as money could not be borrowed upon intangible property -- property whose assets were mythical. Parsons placed a big value upon his education, but inasmuch as he was not in a position to realize any profit from the investment of valuable time and honest brain-work in acquiring his education, he became somewhat discouraged, and the clouds that hung in the horizon grew just one shade darker. He would have applied for a position in one of the schools of thecounty in which he live...