[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 9/37
I sent a telegram through one of our New York directors of the Traction, and his Grace has very kindly promised to come over here to dine." "Is he here for pleasure ?" asked the rector. "I understand he is--" Mr.Fyshe was going to say "about to invest a large part of his fortune in American securities," but he thought better of it.
Even with the clergy it is well to be careful.
So he substituted "is very much interested in studying American conditions." "Does he stay long ?" asked Mr.Furlong. Had Mr.Lucullus Fyshe replied quite truthfully, he would have said, "Not if I can get his money out of him quickly," but he merely answered, "That I don't know." "He will find much to interest him," went on the rector in a musing tone.
"The position of the Anglican Church in America should afford him an object of much consideration.
I understand," he added, feeling his way, "that his Grace is a man of deep piety." "Very deep," said Mr.Fyshe. "And of great philanthropy ?" "Very great." "And I presume," said the rector, taking a devout sip of the unfinished soda, "that he is a man of immense wealth ?" "I suppose so," answered Mr.Fyshe quite carelessly.
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