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The Way We Live Now

CHAPTER X - MR FISKER'S SUCCESS
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Lord Nidderdale had again declared his intention of running, owing to considerable pressure put upon him by certain interested tradesmen, and with this intention had become one of the directors of the Mexican Railway Company.

At the time, however, of which we are now writing, Sir Felix was the favourite for the race among fashionable circles generally.
The middle of April had come, and Fisker was still in London.

When millions of dollars are at stake,--belonging perhaps to widows and orphans, as Fisker remarked,--a man was forced to set his own convenience on one side.

But this devotion was not left without reward, for Mr Fisker had 'a good time' in London.

He also was made free of the Beargarden, as an honorary member, and he also spent a good deal of money.


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