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The Magnificent Ambersons

CHAPTER VIII
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"Isn't he, father ?" Minafer set down his paper for the moment.

"He was a fairly wild young fellow twenty years ago," he said, glancing at his wife absently.

"He was like you in one thing, Georgie; he spent too much money--only he didn't have any mother to get money out of a grandfather for him, so he was usually in debt.

But I believe I've heard he's done fairly well of late years.

No, I can't say I think he's a swindler, and I doubt if he needs anybody else's money to back his horseless carriage." "Well, what's he brought the old thing here for, then?
People that own elephants don't take them elephants around with 'em when they go visiting.


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