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Updated: May 8, 2025
The younger of the two sons of Auguste Duelma, banker, promoter, multimillionaire, he would come into a fortune estimated roughly at between six and eight millions. At the Haggertys' the year before he had hung about her in an aimless fashion. Mrs. Batjer studied Berenice curiously for a moment, then returned to her needlework. "I've asked him down over this week-end," she suggested.
In the name, "Old Main," there is a suggestion of a score of collegiate Gothic quadrangles clustering about their common mother, but these existed only in the dreams of Doctor Todd, and the most tangible expression they found was in a blue-print which was hung in a conspicuous place in his study and presented his scheme of placing the different schools in that hoped-for day when the multimillionaire untied the strings of his money-bags.
There was an American character in this piece too a multimillionaire, of course, and a collector of pictures presumably a dramatically fair and realistic drawing of a wealthy, successful, art-loving American.
She told him that it had been a long time since she had flown in a plane as if Jakarta had been nothing but a dream. The first day after their arrival they took a small plane to Bentonville, Arkansas and then walked through the Wal-Mart museum witnessing different possessions of Sam Walton's humble beginnings and listening to the story of his ambition to become a multimillionaire.
'But you have your own ideas? said Merton. 'I had thought of 15,000l. and leaving England. He is a multimillionaire, the marquis. 'It is rather a pull, said Merton. 'Now speaking as a professional man, and on honour, how is his lordship? Merton asked. 'Speaking as a professional man, he may live a year; he cannot live eighteen months, I stake my reputation on that. Merton mused.
Harsh words and treasonable against one of our leading citizens; multimillionaire philanthropist, social leader, director of banks, insurance companies and railroads, and emperor of the race-track, the sport of kings." "The sport of kings-maintained on the spoils of clerks," retorted Average Jones. "'To improve the breed of horses, if you please!
'He is my nephew: I should know. But don't look dumbfoundered in that absurd fashion: I have no intention of poisoning him in order to see you a multimillionaire, and a Peer of the Realm.... 'My dearest Clodagh! 'I easily might, however. He will be here presently. He is bringing Mr. 'Clodagh. I said, 'believe me, you jest in a manner which does not please me.
Then, too, the trade with China grew to such great proportions that some of the finest fortunes America knew in the days before the "trust magnate" and the "multimillionaire" were founded upon it. The clipper-built ship, designed to bring home the cargoes of tea in season to catch the early market, was the outcome of this trade.
So great had been the newspaper palaver regarding the arrival of a new multimillionaire from the West and the palace he was erecting that even tradesmen, clerks, and hall-boys knew of her. Almost invariably, when called upon to state her name in such quarters, she was greeted by a slight start of recognition, a swift glance of examination, whispers, even open comment. That was something.
We see her in Italy, blind to its natural beauties, blind to its art, unhappy till she gets into the "hurrah" of St. Moritz. That, too, is a failure, only because Undine so wills it. She has literally killed her second husband because she wins from him by "legal" means their child, and in the end she again marries her divorced husband, Elmer Moffatt, now a magnate, a multimillionaire.
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