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But, as some
poet or other says,—“
“Ill-gotten gains come quickly to an end.”
”
It is an incredible thing, and almost a miracle, how he in a few, not months, but
days, squandered all that vast wealth. There was an immense quantity of wine, an
excessive abundance of very valuable plate, much precious apparel, great
quantities of splendid furniture, and other magnificent things in many places,
such as one was likely to see belonging to a man who was not indeed luxurious
but who was very wealthy. Of all this in a few days there was nothing left.
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