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The Gilded Age
Part 5.

CHAPTER XLII
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Indeed I wonder he never thought of it himself--there are no end of precedents.

But how is this going to benefit you, after I have managed it?
There is where the mystery lies." "But I will take care of that.

It will benefit me a great deal." "I only wish I could see how; it is the oddest freak.

You seem to go the furthest around to get at a thing--but you are in earnest, aren't you ?" "Yes I am, indeed." "Very well, I will do it--but why not tell me how you imagine it is going to help you ?" "I will, by and by .-- Now there is nobody talking to him.

Go straight and do it, there's a good fellow." A moment or two later the two sworn friends of the Pension bill were talking together, earnestly, and seemingly unconscious of the moving throng about them.


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