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The Gilded Age
Part 1.

CHAPTER VI
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It's a vast iron speculation!--millions upon millions in it! But fool as I am I told him he could have half the iron property for thirty thousand--and if I only had him back here he couldn't touch it for a cent less than a quarter of a million!" Mrs.Hawkins looked up white and despairing: "You threw away this chance, you let this man go, and we in this awful trouble?
You don't mean it, you can't mean it!" "Throw it away?
Catch me at it! Why woman, do you suppose that man don't know what he is about?
Bless you, he'll be back fast enough to-morrow." "Never, never, never.

He never will comeback.

I don't know what is to become of us.

I don't know what in the world is to become of us." A shade of uneasiness came into Hawkins's face.

He said: "Why, Nancy, you--you can't believe what you are saying." "Believe it, indeed?
I know it, Si.


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