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The Way We Live Now

CHAPTER X - MR FISKER'S SUCCESS
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Ring the bell for Vossner.

I think Carbury ought to pay the money as he lost it, and we didn't expect to have our I.O.U.'s brought up in this way.' 'Lord Nidderdale,' said Sir Felix, 'I have already said that I have not got the money about me.

Why should I have it more than you, especially as I knew I had I.O.U.'s more than sufficient to meet anything I could lose when I sat down ?' 'Mr Fisker must have his money at any rate,' said Lord Nidderdale, ringing the bell again.
'It doesn't matter one straw, my lord,' said the American.

'Let it be sent to me to Frisco, in a bill, my lord.' And so he got up to take his hat, greatly to the delight of Miles Grendall.
But the two young lords would not agree to this.

'If you must go this very minute I'll meet you at the train with the money,' said Nidderdale.


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