Excerpt from The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Vol. 10 The dispatches state that during the three weeks George Gould was lazing and luxuriating in a foreign land the business revival added at least to the value of the Gold securities. Gadzooks! How sweet idleness must be when sugared with more than per day! I'm willing to loaf for half the lucre. How refreshing it is to contemplate our pluto'crats lying beside their nectar like a job lot of Olympian gods careless of mankind -while. 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.