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The Gilded Age
Part 4.

CHAPTER XXVIII
19/21

We shan't have to pay them a cent.

And what is more, they will work like beavers for us--perhaps it might be to their advantage." Harry reflected profoundly a while.

Then he said: "We send many missionaries to lift up the benighted races of other lands.
How much cheaper and better it would be if those people could only come here and drink of our civilization at its fountain head." "I perfectly agree with you, Mr.Beverly.

Must you go?
Well, good morning.

Look in, when you are passing; and whenever I can give you any information about our affairs and pro'spects, I shall be glad to do it." Harry's letter was not a long one, but it contained at least the calamitous figures that came out in the above conversation.


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