[The Girl From Keller’s by Harold Bindloss]@TWC D-Link bookThe Girl From Keller’s CHAPTER XI 13/28
Not that I want your money, but the thing's humiliating." "Do you think it isn't humiliating to me ?" "Perhaps it is," said Charnock, with a half-ashamed look.
"I admit I have been something of an ass, but you are mean, in a sense.
What are you going to do with your money, if you don't intend to spend it ?" "Use if for making more; anyhow, until I get enough." "When will you have enough ?" "When I can sell out the business and live where I want; give you the friends you ought to have instead of low-down gamblers and whisky-tanks. If you'd take hold and work, Bob, we'd be rich in a few years.
The boys like you, you could do all the trade, and the boom that's beginning will make this settlement a big place.
But I guess there's no use in talking--and I'm ill and tired." Sadie's pose got slack and she leaned her arms on the table with her face in her hands.
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