[The Profiteers by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Profiteers CHAPTER IX 5/20
"Not to mention any names, eh? He'll forbid me next to talk about my own wife." "You'd be a cur if you did," Wingate told him. A little spot of colour burned in Dredlinton's cheeks.
For a moment he showed his teeth.
But for Kendrick's restraining arm, he seemed as though he would have thrown himself across the table.
Then, with a great effort, he regained command of himself. "So you won't sell wheat and you won't buy wheat, Mr.American!" he jeered.
"I know what you would like to buy, though--and, damn it all, there's old Dreadnought Phipps down there--he's a bidder, too--ain't you, Phipps, old boy? What you see in her, either of you, I don't know! She's no use to me." Phipps rose in his place.
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