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    Hughie Erskine was a charming but unemployed gentleman living on a small allowance from his aunt. He was in love with Laura Merton, but her father demanded a £10,000 dowry that Hughie could not provide. Hughie spent much of his time with his friend Alan Trevor, a painter. One day at Trevor's studio, Hughie saw Trevor finishing a painting of a beggar modeling for a small fee. Hughie felt sorry for the man and gave him a sovereign. It was later revealed the beggar was actually a wealthy Baron who, impressed by Hughie's kindness, anonymously gifted him the £10,000 dowry needed to marry Laura.

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    Hughie Erskine was a charming but unemployed gentleman living on a small allowance from his aunt. He was in love with Laura Merton, but her father demanded a £10,000 dowry that Hughie could not provide. Hughie spent much of his time with his friend Alan Trevor, a painter. One day at Trevor's studio, Hughie saw Trevor finishing a painting of a beggar modeling for a small fee. Hughie felt sorry for the man and gave him a sovereign. It was later revealed the beggar was actually a wealthy Baron who, impressed by Hughie's kindness, anonymously gifted him the £10,000 dowry needed to marry Laura.

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    Hughie Erskine was a charming but unemployed gentleman living on a small allowance from his aunt. He was in love with Laura Merton, but her father demanded a £10,000 dowry that Hughie could not provide. Hughie spent much of his time with his friend Alan Trevor, a painter. One day at Trevor's studio, Hughie saw Trevor finishing a painting of a beggar modeling for a small fee. Hughie felt sorry for the man and gave him a sovereign. It was later revealed the beggar was actually a wealthy Baron who, impressed by Hughie's kindness, anonymously gifted him the £10,000 dowry needed to marry Laura.

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    Hughie Erskine was a charming but unemployed gentleman living on a small allowance from his aunt. He was in love with Laura Merton, but her father demanded a £10,000 dowry that Hughie could not provide. Hughie spent much of his time with his friend Alan Trevor, a painter. One day at Trevor's studio, Hughie saw Trevor finishing a painting of a beggar modeling for a small fee. Hughie felt sorry for the man and gave him a sovereign. It was later revealed the beggar was actually a wealthy Baron who, impressed by Hughie's kindness, anonymously gifted him the £10,000 dowry needed to marry Laura.

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    Title : Behind the Mask



    Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow.
    Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed.
    The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent
    income than to be fascinating. These are the great truths of modern life
    which Hughie Erskine never realised. He was a perfect gentleman who
    was polite, good-looking and popular with men as with women but jobless.
    The things that he owned were cavalry sword and a History of the
    Peninsular War in fifteen volumes which was given by his late father. He
    lived on two hundred a year that an old aunt allowed him. He had worked
    on several jobs but nothing seemed to work. Ultimately he became
    nothing, a delightful, ineffectual young man with a perfect profile and no
    profession. His love life was Laura Merton, the daughter of a retired
    Colonel who had lost his temper and his digestion in India, and had never
    found either of them again. They were the ideal couple but could only be
    married if Hughie could give a dowry of 10,000 pounds which was
    demanded by the Colonel. Hughie found his solace in his great friend,
    Alan Trevor who was a painter. He had been very much attracted by
    Hughie at first, it must be acknowledged entirely on account of his
    personal charm. However, after he got to know Hughie better, he liked him
    quite as much for his bright buoyant spirits and his generous reckless
    nature, and had given him the permanent entree to his studio. One
    morning, Hughie came in and found Trevor putting the finishing touches to
    a wonderful life-size picture of a beggar-man. The beggar himself was
    standing on a raised platform in a corner of the studio. He was a wizened
    old man, with a face like wrinkled parchment, and a most piteous
    expression. Over his shoulders was flung a coarse brown cloak, all tears
    and tatters; his thick boots were patched and cobbled and with one hand
    he leant on a rough stick, while the other he held out his battered had for
    alms. It was an amazing model but he was paid a penny for an hour while
    Trevor could get two thousand pounds for the piece. Hughie was unhappy
    with the payment and suggested the model should have a percentage as
    they work quite as hard as the painter. But Trevor replied that there are
    moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labour. After
    some time, the servant came in and told Trevor that the frame-maker
    wanted to speak to him. He had to leave Hughie and the beggar-man for a
    moment. Hughie felt sorry for the beggar-man and gave a sovereign into
    his hand. He smiled and thanked him for his kindness. Then, Trevor
    arrived, and Hughie took his leave, blushing a-little at what he had done.
    That night, he met Trevor at the club who was glad that he had finished
    and framed the art piece of the beggar-man. Trevor told Hughie that the
    beggar-man was fond him and told his private affair to him. Hughie was
    angry but he came to know that the beggar-man was one of the richest
    men in Europe whose name was Baron Hausberg. He was ashamed of
    the sovereign he gave him without knowing who he was. The next
    morning, Baron s servant came to visit Hughie and gave a cheque of
    10,000 pounds as a wedding present for him and Laura.

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