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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich

CHAPTER ONE: A Little Dinner with Mr
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Some of the children are worth millions and millions.

In Europe, no doubt, you may see in the Unter den Linden avenue or the Champs Elysees a little prince or princess go past with a clattering military guard of honour.

But that is nothing.

It is not half so impressive, in the real sense, as what you may observe every morning on Plutoria Avenue beside the Mausoleum Club in the quietest part of the city.

Here you may see a little toddling princess in a rabbit suit who owns fifty distilleries in her own right.


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