H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole

Name: The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920) — Chapter 3
Author: H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole

The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

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“The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920) — Chapter 3”, published in 1920, is a work by H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole. It explores elements such as Oppenshaw, Simon and youth.

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ He had always held that no young man ought to inherit till he was twenty-five, and, Heaven knows, that opinion had a firm basis in experience. He had always, in law, looked askance on youth and its doings. In practice, he had been tolerant enough, though indeed, youth comes little in the way of a hard-working and prominent elderly solicitor, but in law, and he was mostly law, he had little tolerance, no respect.
And here was youth with his property in its arms, or what was, perhaps, even worse—the imminent dread of that unholy alliance. ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ He was saved from bothering Oppenshaw again by an instinctive feeling that it would be useless. You cannot extract the follies of youth by an operation. He went on trending toward Oxford Street, but still without object.
What made his position worse was his instinct as a solicitor. For forty years he had, among other work, been engaged in tying up youth so that it could not get at property, extracting youth from pitfalls it had tumbled into while carrying property in its arms. The very words “youth” and “property,” innocent in themselves, were obnoxious to Simon when combined. ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ You will have noticed in life that quite a lot of people don't convince. They may be good, they may be earnest, but they don't convince. Selling a full-grown dog in the world's market, they have little chance against a convincing competitor selling a pup.
Oppenshaw's twenty-five thousand a year came, in good part, from this quality. He had convinced Simon of the fact that inside Simon lay youth that was once Simon; youth that, though unseen and unknown to the world, could still dominate its container, even to the extent of meddling with his bank balance. ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ This was a chop day, just as it was a “Tuesday” day, and habit prevented him from forgetting the fact. The chop and a half bottle of St. Estéphe made him feel a stronger man. He suddenly became cheerful and valiant.
“If worst comes to worst,” said he to himself, “I can put myself under restraint. ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ It was patently foolish to think that a man could be under the dominion of a story-book disease. He had read “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” that wild fiction. Why, if this thing were true it would be a fiction just as wild. Oceans of comfort suddenly came to him. It gave him a new grip on the situation, pointing out that the whole of this business as suggested by Oppenshaw was on a level with a “silly, sensational story;” on a level with the impossible, therefore impossible. ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ In its dry legal jargon it involved the title to London house property, the credit of a woman, the happiness of a family, and a few other things, all of absolutely no account to Simon, engaged on the law of the case. To him the human beings involved were simply as the chessmen in the hands of the player, and necessarily so, for a lawyer who allowed human considerations to color his view would be an untrustworthy lawyer. ”

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H. de Vere Stacpoole and Margaret Stacpoole, The man who found himself (Smith's Magazine 1920… (1920)

“ Nobody need know. Yes, begad, I have always that! I can put myself under surveillance. Why, dash it, I can tie up my money so that I can't touch it. It's quite easy!”
The chop and St. Estéphe, hauling him out of the slough of despond, told him this. It was a sure way of escape from losing his money. He had furiously rejected the idea at Oppenshaw's, but at Oppenshaw's his Property had not had time to talk fully to him, whereas in that awful journey from Harley Street to Verrey's he had walked arm in arm with his Property chattering on one side and dumb Bankruptcy on the other. ”

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