text:  It was no use drawing invidious comparisons between a weighty glittering guinea fresh started from the mint of Mammon and the homely unpretending well-thumbed issue of the North; it was no use hinting that a system which professed to dispense with bullion must of necessity be a mere illusion which would go down with the first blast of misfortune as easily as its fragile notes could be dispersed before a breeze of wind