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"Anything," I said, trying to smile, "short of murder " "Oh, I am not joking!" he went on with an encouraging flash of seriousness. "Five thousand a year cool, and no expenses livin' on the fat of the land, with nothin' to do but " He broke off suddenly and grasped me by the arm. "Did you ever hear of old John Benham, the multi-millionaire?" he asked.
He was expecting Julius K. Brayne, that multi-millionaire whose colossal and even crushing endowments of small religions have occasioned so much easy sport and easier solemnity for the American and English papers. Nobody could quite make out whether Mr.
I'm going to be a colorless person, you see." "Oh! And er do you think Mr. Stanley G. Fulton, multi-millionaire, with his pictured face in half the papers and magazines from the Atlantic to the Pacific, CAN hide that face behind a colorless John Smith?" "Maybe not. But he can hide it behind a nice little close-cropped beard." The millionaire stroked his smooth chin reflectively. "Humph!
"He professed so much. If I had all Gerard promised me I would be a multi-millionaire. But I am not ungrateful. Jackson and I can help you a little; count on us!" "Thanks, Desmond. At present you are invaluable to me, as much because of the weight you carry with the public as for the £ s. d. I don't think you are making a mistake because I intend to succeed, and I haven't drawn a blank yet."
"Why could not Kosuth borrow it for his country from a private individual?" "A million pounds is not a large sum to talk about," Peter replied, "but it is an exceedingly large sum for anyone, even a multi-millionaire, to handle in cash. And Turkey, I gather, wants it at once.
Merrick appeared on the scene West had been considered a very wealthy man, as it was known he had many interests outside of his store; but compared with the multi-millionaire old Bob had come to be regarded more modestly, although still admitted to be the village's "warmest" citizen. He was an authority in the town, too, and a man of real importance. Mr.
The person who made X essentially interesting to me long before I met him was one Lucien de Shay, a ne'er-do-well pianist and voice culturist, who was also a connoisseur in the matters of rugs, hangings, paintings and furniture, things in which X was just then most intensely interested, erecting, as he was, a great house on Long Island and but newly blossoming into the world of art or fashion or culture or show those various things which the American multi-millionaire always wants to blossom or bloom into and which he does not always succeed in doing.
And the Record prints snapshots at Joy and her nursemaid. Aren't newspapers funny?" "Some one of us should be running for office," said Uncle Timothy. "It seems gratuitous to subject an unambitious private family to the treatment expected by a candidate or a multi-millionaire. Yet I have seldom had occasion to complain of the press.
"Although a multi-millionaire, no man is more considerate of the feelings and the rights of his more humble neighbours. Send him to the Legislature! We'd send him to the United States Senate if we could. He'll land there, anyway." Mr.
And the multi-millionaire was well content to rest in the little cottage where he had found a real home, watching the quiet course of events, and waiting waiting for something which he found himself disposed to expect a something to which he could not give a name.
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