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How the old deacon would stare if he knew how I had been prospering at the mines!

From Ben's Nugget A Boy's Search For Fortune by Alger, Horatio

He settled down quietly at Hall, where meanwhile business had been prospering, and where now it put forth new vigour.

From Shining Ferry by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Perhaps if the rector had been prospering as before, if no cloud had arisen in his sky, it might have been different.

From The New Rector by Weyman, Stanley John