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lucking out her grey hairs, there were so many of them. She found no relaxation in the society of her fellows and therefore avoided all social gatherings. Most of her time she spent at home, sitting all by herself in the remotest chamber of the house, half of whose wall was by this time overgrown by the asclepia which Szilard had given her ages ago--or so it seemed to her. This was the only one of her acquaintances which had not forsaken her, and luckily for her it was tenacious of life, for if that too had perished, with whom could poor Henrietta have held converse? So there was at least one creature in the world to whom this possessor of millions could still confide her reminiscences and her sorrows. Poor rich lady, all the poorer because of her great wealth! Poor plutocrat! THE END [Transcriber's Note: Most obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Foreign words may appear at some points in the text with accents and at other points without, and proper names may be spelled differently in different parts of the text. These inconsistencies have been preserved from the original publication.] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Poor Plutocrats, by Maurus Jokai *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE POOR PLUTOCRATS *** ***** This file should be named 18705.txt or 18705.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/7/0/18705/ Produced by Steven desJardins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and research. The
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