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Three weeks ago I came up here to the wilds of Vermont to visit my old aunt, also to get a little quiet and distance in which to survey certain new prospects which have opened before me, and to decide whether I will marry a millionnaire and become a queen of society, or remain 'the charming Miss Vaughan' and wait till the conquering hero comes.
He was nervous because he was dyspeptic, and at one time of his career he mistook stomach trouble for a call to the pulpit. And he was a millionnaire more times than he took the trouble to count. "Yes," he timidly replied, "I did change my wavering mind as you call that deficient organ of mine and so I returned. I hope I don't disturb you!" "No, not yet.
"See," said she, "put your articles on this counter, before that window with green curtains." A moment after he heard a voice which seemed to proceed from the next room: "Twelve hundred francs for the watch and ring." This large amount produced such a sensation as to arrest all the conversation. All eyes were turned toward the millionnaire who was going to pocket such a fortune.
"I'm going to prove to you by physical demonstration that it's better sport to be a millionnaire than a farmer not that I am a millionnaire: I'm only accepting the reputation you give me." So I walked with him down to the lane. "Let me know when you grease up again," he said, "and I'll come over."
It is not for mere ostentation that I have invited to my soirées, the Hon. Mr. A., and Judge B., and Counsellor C." "I don't see what you're driving at," said the broker. "O, of course not. But when you find yourself a millionnaire, and all by the scheming of your wife, perhaps, B., you'd think there was some wisdom in what you are pleased to call my fashionable follies.
Progress of the age!" "No," replied Cecilia, smiling at this outburst, but smiling sadly, "Fletwode did not marry the daughter of a duke or a millionnaire; but still his wife belonged to a noble family, very poor, but very proud. Perhaps he married from motives of ambition, though not of gain. Her father was of much political influence that might perhaps assist his claim to the barony.
The prim little drawing-rooms on M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, opened both leaves of their folding-doors to the millionnaire. They made a thousand advances to him. He refused. This time the good gossips had no trouble. "He is an ignorant man, of no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to behave in society.
'Yes, well enough, he replied. 'But I don't see what's to come of it, for I can't work. Even if my father were a millionnaire, I couldn't go on living on him. The sooner that is over, the better! He was looking down, and gnawing at that tremulous upper lip. I felt miserable. 'I wish we were at the same college, Charley! I said. 'It's better as it is, he rejoined. 'I should do you no good.
Parr got a corporation lawyer named Langmaid he's another one of your millionnaire crooks to fix it up and get around the law and keep him out of jail. And then they had to settle with Tim Beatty for something like three hundred thousand. You know who Beatty is he owns this city his saloon's around here on Elm Street. All the crooks had to be squared.
Chip and the millionnaire remained in the parlor, while the others were taking care of the proposed witness, and great was the anxiety of the former that their absence should not be prolonged.
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