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Marse Henry
Complete

CHAPTER the Twenty-Ninth
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Thus all things come to him who contrives and waits.
Meanwhile, there are "groups" and "rings." And, likewise, "leaders" and "bosses." What do they know or care about the origins of wealth; about Venice; about Cadiz; about what is said of Wall Street?
The Spanish Main was long ago stripped of its pillage.

The buccaneers took themselves off to keep company with the Vikings.

Yet, away down in those money chests, once filled with what were pieces of eight and ducats and doubloons, who shall say that spirits may not lurk and ghosts walk, one old freebooter wheezing to another old freebooter: "They order these things better in the 'States.'" IV I have enjoyed hugely my several sojourns in Spain.

The Spaniard is unlike any other European.

He may not make you love him.


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