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I blame the men who incite them the old men, the soft-handed men, who sit back in office-chairs and plan madness for the world! What shall be the punishment of these men?" "They're a hard crowd " I admitted. "I have seen them! They are stone-faced men! They are wolves with machinery! They are savages with polished fingernails! And they have made of the land a place of fools!
Shall I ever forget them? Had Riggley listened to my advice we both would now be sitting in our comfortable office-chairs in New York. But no! he must needs try to force gold from a stone-wall!"
Stephens came forward on his entrance, his face all aglow with smiles, and cordially held out his hand. "Mr. Stephens!" gasped Theodore, "how what?" and then, utterly overcome, sank into one of the office-chairs, and covered his face with his hands. "My dear boy," said Mr. Stephens, with an outward calmness and an inward chuckle, "what is the matter with you this morning?"
And mark, Abel, if this were the Millennium, things would be very different. But it isn't the Millennium. It's give one and take two, if you can get it. That's what it is here; and let him who wants to, kick against the pricks." Abel hung his legs over the arms of the office-chairs in the counting-room, and listened gravely. "I don't suppose, Sir, that 'tis money as money that is worth having.
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