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A wife is a torment, if you can't feel at ease with her. "If there were only a French fleet in the harbor, dear," said Margaret one day, "I should feel that I had quite taken up the life of my great-great-grandmother." They were sailing in Hollowell's yacht, in which Uncle Jerry had brought his family round from New York. He hated the water, but Mrs.
"Oh, Henderson knows a good thing when he sees it," said Hollowell, complacently. It was not easy to be offended with Hollowell's kind-hearted boorishness, and after he had gone, Margaret sat a long time reflecting upon this new specimen of man in her experience.
"Well, there's a man here from Fort Worth who wants us to buy a piece of railroad, and extend it, and join it with Hollowell's system, and open up a lot of new country." "And isn't it a good piece of road?" "Yes; that's the trouble. The owners want to keep it to themselves, and prevent the general development. But we shall get it." "It isn't anything like wrecking, is it, dear?"
"Oh, Henderson knows a good thing when he sees it," said Hollowell, complacently. It was not easy to be offended with Hollowell's kind-hearted boorishness, and after he had gone, Margaret sat a long time reflecting upon this new specimen of man in her experience.
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