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Updated: May 10, 2025
If petroleum was not fabulously profitable, how would you account for the oil-fever with which these cool, calculating Americans have suddenly been seized, and which has made more millionaires than the gold-fever in California and the Territories? Ah! there is something to be made there yet, and something grand, if one could dispose of a large capital."
So it's no wonder the Macklin fortune worries mother whenever she thinks of it; a family like ours could use money so easily." "Most families are like that," said Betty, with a flash of Uncle Dick's humor. "I didn't like to ask, Norma, but your grandmother must have been wealthy." "She was," confirmed Norma. "Not fabulously so, of course.
Batouch spoke of him with a convinced respect, describing him as fabulously rich, fabulously generous to the Arabs. "He never gives to the French, Madame, but when he is here each Friday, upon our Sabbath, he comes to the gate with a bag of money in his hand, and he gives five franc pieces to every Arab who is there." "And what is he? French?"
The street was filled from house-wall to house-wall with an immense mass of broken stone, brick, and other débris. The cause was not far to seek. Immediately upon the left rose one of the fabulously high buildings for which the ancient city had been famous.
He presented himself, with his battered valise, at the door of Thomas Bingle's apartment and was given a warm, even hearty reception! And it was on that day at that very hour, so to speak that Thomas Bingle became a fabulously rich man without the slightest effort or intention on his part. Mr. Hooper one day recalled to mind the postal-card will.
But none of his later achievements can in any degree compare with what he did in a cellar in Salem, at twenty-eight years of age. They had all become rich, these first friends of the telephone, but not fabulously so. There was not at that time, nor has there been since, any one who became a multimillionaire by the sale of telephone service.
The Señor must be seventy years old now, but a man of mystery, fabulously rich.... Just a little while ago, he brought over a fresh bride from South America. They say she's a thriller to look at. The Spaniard calls her his 'Glow-worm' " "Truly a honeymoon name," Bedient observed. "You see," the Captain concluded, "I can speak of The Pleiad only from the outside.
The mines were fabulously rich; tens of thousands in dust were often taken in a single day by a lone miner, fortunes were made and lost at the gambling tables, and even the terrible winters could not triumph over the gold seekers.
The artist was roused in him, and the worshipper of beauty, who felt that beneath a statue of that maiden one might write "Spring." All at once he remembered Chrysothemis, and pure laughter seized him. Chrysothemis seemed to him, with golden powder on her hair and darkened brows, to be fabulously faded, something in the nature of a yellowed rose-tree shedding its leaves.
Though fabulously senile, he had preserved and even improved his faculty for enjoying a catastrophe. He now went to funerals with gusto, contentedly absorbed in the task of burying his friends one by one. It was he who said, in his high, trembling, rasping, deliberate voice: "It's a pity her didn't live long enough to hear as Federation is going on after all! That would ha' worritted her."
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