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The Way We Live Now

CHAPTER IX - THE GREAT RAILWAY TO VERA CRUZ
19/21

We could get probably one of the Directors of the City and West End.

But we would leave it all to you,--as also the amount of stock you would like to take yourself.

If you gave yourself to it, heart and soul, Mr Melmotte, it would be the finest thing that there has been out for a long time.

There would be such a mass of stock!' 'You have to back that with a certain amount of paid-up capital ?' 'We take care, sir, in the West not to cripple commerce too closely by old-fashioned bandages.

Look at what we've done already, sir, by having our limbs pretty free.


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