Download or read book A Millionaire's Love Story (Classic Reprint) written by Guy Boothby and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Millionaire's Love Story A certain paradoxical wit once remarked that George Kilvert was a man very much to be pitied, for the reason that he was too wealthy ever to experience the peculiar delight of wast 'ing a sovereign. Doubtless there are people in the world who would assure you that it would be impossible to be overburdened with riches; this argument, however, will serve to show you how little they' realize the thraldom that eu circles a millionaire. Kilvert was wont pathet ically to declare that his father, otherwise an entirely unromantic man, had chanced to ao quire a liking for the romance of money-mak ing, and for this reason had been unable to leave off when he had accumulated his fair pro portion of the world's wealth. What pleasure this amassing of money gave him no one was able to tell, for a more unostentatious individ ual than he could scarcely have been discov ered on the face of the habitable globe. He. 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.