O. Henry O:The Four Million Volume 2
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … Plus…
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...slick as soap grease. It''s made you one. By hokey! it''s almost made one of me. Pit nearly as impolite and disagreeable and ill-mannered as these two old Knickerbocker gents on eacb side of me that can''t sleep of nights because I bought in between ''em. There are some things that money can''t accomplish, remarked young Rockwall, rather gloomily. Now, don''t say that, said old Anthony, shocked. I bet my money on money every time. I''ve been through the encyclopaedia down to Y looking for something you can''t buy with it; and I expect to have to take up the appendix next week. I''m for money against the field. Tell me something money won''t buy. For one thing, answered Richard, rankling a little, it won''t buy one into the exclusive circles of society. Oho! won''t it? thundered the champion of the root of evil. You tell me where your exclusive circles would be if the first Astor hadn''t had the money to pay for his steerage passage over? Richard sighed. ''. And that''s what I was coming to, said the old man, less boisterously. That''s why I asked you to come in. There''s something going wrong with you, boy. Pve been noticing it for two weeks. Out with it. I guess I could lay my hands on eleven millions within twenty-four hours, besides the real estate. If it''s your liver, there''s the Rambler down in the bay, coaled, and ready to steam down to the Bahamas in two days. Not a bad guess, dad; you haven''t missed it far. Ah, said Anthony, keenly; what''s her name? Richard began to walk up and down the library floor. There was enough comradeship and sympathy in this crude old father of his to draw his confidence,... O. Henry O, Books, Fiction and Literature, The Four Million Volume 2 Books>Fiction and Literature Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Original Publisher: Doubleday, Page<
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O. Henry O:The Four Million Volume 2
- nouveau livre ISBN: 9781151102430
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not … Plus…
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...slick as soap grease. It''s made you one. By hokey! it''s almost made one of me. Pit nearly as impolite and disagreeable and ill-mannered as these two old Knickerbocker gents on eacb side of me that can''t sleep of nights because I bought in between ''em. There are some things that money can''t accomplish, remarked young Rockwall, rather gloomily. Now, don''t say that, said old Anthony, shocked. I bet my money on money every time. I''ve been through the encyclopaedia down to Y looking for something you can''t buy with it; and I expect to have to take up the appendix next week. I''m for money against the field. Tell me something money won''t buy. For one thing, answered Richard, rankling a little, it won''t buy one into the exclusive circles of society. Oho! won''t it? thundered the champion of the root of evil. You tell me where your exclusive circles would be if the first Astor hadn''t had the money to pay for his steerage passage over? Richard sighed. ''. And that''s what I was coming to, said the old man, less boisterously. That''s why I asked you to come in. There''s something going wrong with you, boy. Pve been noticing it for two weeks. Out with it. I guess I could lay my hands on eleven millions within twenty-four hours, besides the real estate. If it''s your liver, there''s the Rambler down in the bay, coaled, and ready to steam down to the Bahamas in two days. Not a bad guess, dad; you haven''t missed it far. Ah, said Anthony, keenly; what''s her name? Richard began to walk up and down the library floor. There was enough comradeship and sympathy in this crude old father of his to draw his confidence,... O. Henry O, Books, Fiction and Literature, The Four Million Volume 2 Books>Fiction and Literature, General Books LLC<
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