Explore "Romance in It" by Edgar Wallace on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
SPENDING money (said the Superintendent) is an art. Have you ever noticed that when people come into money suddenly the first thing they do is to create criminals? It's a fact. They begin right, but they weaken on it. The feller who buys the winning ticket in the Calcutta Sweep always starts by saying that he's just going to jog along at his old job in the grocery department, and the girl who inherits a million dollars from her uncle in Australia tells the reporter that she wants nothing more than a little cottage in the country with roses up the garden path, but one of 'um ends by playing a system at Monte Carlo and the other finishes up as Queen of the night clubs.
Neither could understand why swells who hadn't a quarter of their money lived twice as well. You've got to be educated from birth in money-spending: it must be kicked into you at school and at home-it's one of the hardest things a feller can learn.