"In
reality, it is simplicity itself. I merely avoid the errors of inferior
practitioners. That is to say, I never plead for myself; and I
never apply to rich people--both fatal mistakes which the inferior
practitioner perpetually commits. People with small means sometimes have
generous impulses in connection with money--rich people, _never_. My
lord, with forty thousand a year; Sir John, with property in half a
dozen counties--those are the men who never forgive the genteel beggar
for swindling them out of a sovereign; those are the men who send for
the mendicity officers; those are the men who take care of their
money. Who are the people who lose shillings and sixpences by sheer
thoughtlessness? Servants and small clerks, to whom shillings and
sixpences are of consequence. Did you ever hear of Rothschild or Baring
dropping a fourpenny-piece down a gutter-hole? Fourpence in Rothschild's
pocket is safer than fourpence in the pocket of that woman who is crying
stale shrimps in Skeldergate at this moment. Fortified by these sound
principles, enlightened by the stores of written information in my
commercial library, I have ranged through the population for years past,
and have raised my charitable crops with the most cheering success.
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