[Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich by Stephen Leacock]@TWC D-Link bookArcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich CHAPTER ONE: A Little Dinner with Mr 35/37
The Dulham family are practically ruined.
The Duke, I imagine, is under the necessity of mortgaging his estates; indeed, I should suppose he is here in America to raise money." Mr.Fyshe was a man of lightning action.
Any man accustomed to the Stock Exchange learns to think quickly. "One moment!" he cried; "I see we are right at your door.
May I just run in and use your telephone? I want to call up Boulder for a moment." Two minutes later Mr.Fyshe was saying into the telephone, "Oh, is that you, Boulder? I was looking for you in vain today--wanted you to meet the Duke of Dulham, who came in quite unexpectedly from New York; felt sure you'd like to meet him.
Wanted you at the club for dinner, and now it turns out that the club's all upset--waiters' strike or some such rascality--and the Palaver, so I hear, is in the same fix.
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