[The $30000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookThe $30000 Bequest and Other Stories CHAPTER IV 5/13
Already we are beginning to roll in eventual wealth. You know that, don't you ?" "Yes, Aleck, it's certainly so." "Then be grateful for what God is doing for us and stop worrying.
You do not believe we could have achieved these prodigious results without His special help and guidance, do you ?" Hesitatingly, "N-no, I suppose not." Then, with feeling and admiration, "And yet, when it comes to judiciousness in watering a stock or putting up a hand to skin Wall Street I don't give in that YOU need any outside amateur help, if I do wish I--" "Oh, DO shut up! I know you do not mean any harm or any irreverence, poor boy, but you can't seem to open your mouth without letting out things to make a person shudder.
You keep me in constant dread.
For you and for all of us.
Once I had no fear of the thunder, but now when I hear it I--" Her voice broke, and she began to cry, and could not finish.
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