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We understood that his lordship, Mosha de Carwell, was main bad. Ha, sir, we shall all feel his loss, poor, dear, noble gentleman; and I'm sure nobody more polite! They do say, sir, his wealth is enormous, and before the Revolution, quite a prince in his own country! But I beg your pardon, sir; 'ow I do run on, to be sure; and doubtless all beknown to you already!
Oncet in a while a feller likes to take a little flyer in the market and try and make a few dollars. Ain't it?" "What!" Aaron exclaimed. This was a phase of his uncle's character that had never been exposed before. "Yes, Aaron," Uncle Mosha continued; "living ain't only having a room to sleep in and food to eat, Aaron. Other things is living, Aaron.
"The fact is," Morris said slowly, and then his mind reverted to the brass plate on the door and he at once proceeded with renewed confidence "the fact is I am coming over here to ask you something, a question which a friend of mine would like to buy a property on the East Side." "A property," Uncle Mosha repeated. "A property is something else again.
Meantime Uncle Mosha had not neglected the opportunity afforded him during his last few days of liberty. With his seven hundred and fifty dollars he had sought the brokerage offices of Klinkberg & Company the morning after signing his contract with Leon Sammet.
"I could feel a whole lot better, Aaron, and I could feel a whole lot worse," Mosha Kronberg replied. "Them suckers has been after me again." "Which ones are they now?" Aaron asked, his curiosity aroused. "An orphan asylum," Mosha replied. "The gall which some people got it, Aaron, honestly you wouldn't believe it at all. They want me I should give 'em two hundred and fifty dollars.
Stocks is living and auction pinocle is also living, and going oncet in a while on theayter is living too, Aaron. I may be an old man, Aaron, but I ain't dead yet." Aaron's pale face grew almost ghastly at these shocking disclosures, and when Uncle Mosha concluded his audacious creed with a furtive wink his nephew visibly started.
Ref. 46-5/8 38-1/2 38-1/8 4-1/8 "Wiped again!" he muttered as he dropped the paper to the floor. Half an hour later, when Alex and Max Gershon came out of the adjoining room with the copartnership agreement duly executed, they found Uncle Mosha calmly smoking the last of his cigar while he pondered over the "News for Investors" column.
Uncle Mosha fairly beamed. "Yes, Mr. Kronberg," Morris went on, without taking breath, "he says to me: 'You should go and see Uncle Mosha; he's a gentleman and he would treat you right. 'But, I says to him, 'I ain't got no right to butt in on your Uncle Mosha. You see, Alex, I says " "Alex!" Uncle Mosha cried. "Did Alex Kronberg send you here?" "That's who it was," Morris replied.
"But what for you want to sell the house, Uncle Mosha? It brings you in anyhow a good income." "A good income for some people, Aaron, but for me not. What is one thousand a year, Aaron?" "One thousand a year, uncle, is a whole lot, especially to a man like you, what lives simple."
E's not exactly a trained vallet, but Mosha Powl, the Viscount's gentleman, 'ave give him the benefick of a few lessons, and it is 'oped that he may give sitisfection. Hanythink that you may require, if you will be so good as to mention the same to Rowley, I will make it my business myself, sir, to see you sitisfied." So saying, the eminent and already detested Mr.
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