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"Three millions! : or, The way of the world" by Oliver Optic is a novel written in the late 19th century. It centers on Eugene Hungerford, a principled young New Englander suddenly enriched by his uncle’s immense fortune—on the condition that he marry and produce a son named John Hungerford—setting up a conflict between love, duty, and personal integrity. The story moves among Poppleton’s mills and harbor and the nearby islands, following Eugene’s feelings for Mary Kingman, the attentions of an ardent artist, Eliot Buckstone, and the counsel of his friend Dick Birch, as wealth collides with character and community. The opening of the novel recounts the rise and death of Baltimore magnate John Hungerford and the reading of his elaborate will: generous bequests to friends and charities, and the bulk—three million dollars—held in trust for nephew Eugene until age thirty, to be inherited outright only if he is married and father to a son named John; otherwise the estate is divided among f
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