[The Profiteers by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Profiteers CHAPTER II 3/20
"I hope that Miss Baldwin's remark will not prejudice me in your opinion.
I am really not such a frivolous person as she would have you believe." "Even if you were," she rejoined, sinking into the chair which had been brought for her, "a little frivolity from men, nowadays, is rather in order, isn't it ?" "It's all very well for those who can afford to indulge in it," Kendrick grumbled.
"We can't earn our bread and butter now on the Stock Exchange. Even our friend Maurice here, who works as long as an hour and a half a day sometimes, declares that he can barely afford his new Rolls-Royce." "You men are so elusive about your prospects," Sarah declared.
"I believe that Jimmy could afford to marry me to-morrow if he'd only make up his mind to it." "I'm ready to try, anyhow," the young man assured her promptly.
"Girls nowadays talk so much rot about giving up their liberty." "Once a taxicab driver, always a taxicab driver," Sarah propounded.
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