[The Gilded Age Part 3. by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner]@TWC D-Link bookThe Gilded Age Part 3. CHAPTER XXII 8/12
I've got my interests in Missouri; and I wouldn't leave Philip, as long as he stays there." When the young gentlemen were on their way back to the hotel, Mr.Philip, who was not in very good humor, broke out, "What the deuce, Harry, did you go on in that style to the Montagues for ?" "Go on ?" cried Harry.
"Why shouldn't I try to make a pleasant evening? And besides, ain't I going to do those things? What difference does it make about the mood and tense of a mere verb? Didn't uncle tell me only last Saturday, that I might as well go down to Arizona and hunt for diamonds? A fellow might as well make a good impression as a poor one." "Nonsense.
You'll get to believing your own romancing by and by." "Well, you'll see.
When Sellers and I get that appropriation, I'll show you an establishment in town and another on the Hudson and a box at the opera." "Yes, it will be like Col.
Sellers' plantation at Hawkeye.
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