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John lost it and a fearful blow it was to him, for he had to pay out a million to his sister without any further delay. It is true he had as much again left for himself, but to be the possessor of only a single million is nevertheless a fearful thought to anyone who has hitherto been the possessor of two millions. The poor plutocrat!
I am not dead yet. Wait! 'I will, and some day, when I am walking along Piccadilly, a passing automobile will splash me with mud. A heavily furred plutocrat will stare haughtily at me from the tonneau, and with a start of surprise I shall recognize 'Stranger things have happened. Be flip while you can, sonny. You win so far, but this hoodoo of mine can't last for ever.
Here lines would form to receive rations, the millionaire rubbing shoulders with the laborer. The panhandler got as much as the plutocrat. The disaster leveled all classes. A million dollars in one's pocket would have been of little use. Nothing could be bought with it and it could not serve as either food or drink. Getting Back to Work
But he was looking at Stampa, and frowning in deep thought. The guide heard his slow, heavy tread, and turned. The two met. They exchanged no word, but went away together, the lame peasant hobbling along by the side of the tall, well dressed plutocrat. "How odd!" said Mrs. de la Vere. "How exceedingly odd!" "Now, what have you to say? We are safe from meddlers here." Bower spoke curtly.
One would never say ... Then there would be the meals. We could demand one franc for the cafe au lait, two and a half francs for the lunch, and three francs for the dinner. Without counting other things. That would mean over five hundred francs a month, at least. And what would they cost us? Almost nothing! By what appears, he is a plutocrat ... I could thus quickly repay you."
Gideon belonged to the second class the class that pushes upward without getting into jail; he was a fair representative of this type, neither its best nor its worst, but about midway of its range between arrogant, all-dominating plutocrat and shystering merchant or lawyer or politician who barely escapes the criminal class. "You don't ask me to sit down, dearie," he went on facetiously.
"Also go call me a tikka-gharri and select a very senior horse, blind, angular, withered, wilted, and answering to the name, most obviously, of Skin-and-Grief lest I be taken by the Grizzly-Goslings for a down-trodden plutocrat and a brother and not seen for the fierce and 'aughty oppressor that I am." Public conveyance. "Sahib?" "Tikka-gharri lao, you lazy little 'ound!
'I wear me coat, he says, 'because I have no shirt, he says. 'Gintlemen, says th' chairman, 'a mistake has been made, he says. 'This here person, who bears th' appearance iv a plutocrat, is all right underneath, he says. 'He's a diligate to th' silver convintion, he says. 'Go in peace, he says. "Be this time 'twas gr-rowin' late, an' th' convintion adjourned.
David was eager to know that, but Mitch decided that he must be going. He hadn't time to stay here any longer. He intimated that he had important business to look after. He was going to make a kite ten feet tall, and, with the snobbishness of a plutocrat, he went strutting away. He was almost beyond earshot when he volunteered this brief information: "My father, he guv it to me."
The Bourbon nobles in France and in Italy were not more amazed. when the Revolutionists proposed to sweep them away than were the American Plutocrats of the Rooseveltian era when he promoted laws to regulate them. The Bourbon thinks the earth will perish unless Bourbonism governs it; the American Plutocrat thought that America existed simply to enrich him.
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