The Duchess and the Jeweller by Virginia Woolf. Short summary

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To many people, Oliver Bacon was an ordinary London tramp who was treated with contempt. The guy didn’t want to stay poor, so he started making money by any means necessary.

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Many people now know Oliver Bacon as the most famous jeweler in all of the British Isles. Fame brings the Briton enormous money, on which he can not deny himself anything. But it wasn’t always like that. A few years ago, Oliver was an ordinary London tramp who barely had enough to eat, and others treated him with disdain. Not willing to accept such a fate, the guy decided to earn enough money to get out of poverty and never go back.

For the sake of this, he did not shy away from any means of earning money. At first he made money from selling stolen dogs and selling overpriced cheap watches. But that was in the distant past. Now the professional jeweler has other concerns. Literally in a few minutes the duchess is supposed to arrive. When she arrives, Oliver opens six steel safes with jewels. The noblewoman will have to wait a little while for the owner of the establishment.