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The Gilded Age
Part 4.

CHAPTER XXVIII
18/21

Levy another assessment" "Oh, I see.

That's dismal." "By no means." "Why isn't it?
What's the road out ?" "Another appropriation, don't you see ?" "Bother the appropriations.

They cost more than they come to." "Not the next one.

We'll call for half a million--get it and go for a million the very next month."-- "Yes, but the cost of it!" The president smiled, and patted his secret letters affectionately.

He said: "All these people are in the next Congress.


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