[The American by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookThe American CHAPTER III 18/52
You take things too coolly.
It exasperates me. And then you are too happy.
You have what must be the most agreeable thing in the world, the consciousness of having bought your pleasure beforehand and paid for it.
You have not a day of reckoning staring you in the face.
Your reckonings are over." "Well, I suppose I am happy," said Newman, meditatively. "You have been odiously successful." "Successful in copper," said Newman, "only so-so in railroads, and a hopeless fizzle in oil." "It is very disagreeable to know how Americans have made their money. Now you have the world before you.
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