Tales From Blackwood, Vol. 10

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Excerpt from Tales From Blackwood, Vol. 10: New Series Mr Ezekiel Burdon - locally known as Zeke Burdon - was one day seated in his counting-house in Sydney, New South Wales. He had been look ing over the office books, which told him a very satisfactory tale, and, after a little indulgence of elation at his success in life, he subsided into moralising, and was trying to pick out some of the proofs that men's fortunes are the natural and legitimate consequences of their actions. And this was by no means an investigation to be simply and readily made. Mr Burdon was now, and had been for many years, an honest, fair dealing, liberal man, as men went, nay, he was generous. But this had not always been his character. The circumstances connected long ago with his coming to New South Wales were not such as, according to the rules of poetical justice, would have insured prosperity. But prosperity had come, and glad as he was of her presence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.