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"He means me," added Draymore, offering his hand; "good-bye, Captain Selwyn; I dare say we are up against it hard." "Because we've got to buy in that property or close up the Siowitha," added Mottly, coming over to make his adieux. "By the way, Selwyn, you ought to be one of us in the Siowitha " "Thank you, but isn't this rather an awkward time to suggest it?" said Selwyn good-humouredly.
Which was all very fine, and Mottly meant it at the time; but, outside of the asset of self-respect, there was too much money invested in the lands, plant, and buildings, in the streams, lakes, hatcheries, and forests of the Siowitha. The enormously wealthy seldom stand long upon dignity if that dignity is going to be very expensive. Only the poor can afford disastrous self-respect.
Harmon in disgust, wrath, and fear went to Craig; Craig to Maxwell Hunt; Hunt wired Mottly; Mottly, cold and sleek in his contempt, came from Palm Beach. The cohesive power of caste is an unknown element to the outsider.
You'll hear from the secretary, I fancy Mottly, you know. . . . Is there anything more, Neergard?" Neergard scarcely heard him. He had listened, mechanically, when told in as many words that he had been read out of the Siowitha Club; he understood that he stood alone, discarded, disgraced, with a certain small coterie of wealthy men implacably hostile to him.
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