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Excerpt from The Girl of the Period, Vol. 2 of 2: And Other Social Essays
The gushing man is the very pabulum of sharks and sharpers; and it is he Whose impressibility and gullible good-nature supply Wind for the sails of half the rotten schemes a?oat. F ull of faith in his fellows, and of belief in a brilliant future to be had by good luck and not by hard work, he cannot bring himself to doubt either men or measures unless indeed his gushingness takes the form of suspicion, and then he goes about delivering himself of accusations not one of Which he can substantiate by the weakest bulwark of fact, and doubting the soundness of investments as safe as the T bree per Cents.
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