title: King of Clubs: Grow Rich in More Than Money
author: Dedman Robert H.
description: "Race, gender, or religion didn't make any difference to us" he (Robert Dedman) wrote in King of Club. (<i>The Dallas Morning News</i>)
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  A Capitalist  
    
  
  
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  # A Capitalist
  
  
  ### George Gissing
  
  
  
  
  
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  Among the men whom I saw occasionally at the little club in Mortimer Street, —
  and nowhere else, — was one who drew my attention before I had learnt his name
  or knew anything about him. Of middle age, in the fullness of health and
  vigour, but slenderly built; his face rather shrewd than intellectual,
  interesting rather than pleasing; always dressed as the season's mode
  dictated, but without dandyism; assuredly he belonged to the money-spending,
  and probably to the money-getting, world. At first sight of him I remember
  resenting his cap-è-pie perfection; it struck me as bad form — here in
  Mortimer Street, among fellows of the pen and the palette.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  'Oh,' said Harvey Munden, 'he's afraid of being tak