[Following the Equator Part 2 by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookFollowing the Equator Part 2 CHAPTER XIII 13/27
Why yours are looking just ratty, don't you know; and yet you must be rich." "I am." The young man walked slowly back to the town, deeply musing as he went. He halted a moment in front of the best restaurant, then glanced at his clothes and passed on, and got his breakfast at a "stand-up." There was a good deal of it, and it cost five shillings.
He tendered a sovereign, got his change, glanced at his silver, muttered to himself, "There isn't enough to buy clothes with," and went his way. At half-past nine the richest wool-broker in Sydney was sitting in his morning-room at home, settling his breakfast with the morning paper.
A servant put his head in and said: "There's a sundowner at the door wants to see you, sir." "What do you bring that kind of a message here for? Send him about his business." "He won't go, sir.
I've tried." "He won't go? That's--why, that's unusual.
He's one of two things, then: he's a remarkable person, or he's crazy.
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