[Copper Streak Trail by Eugene Manlove Rhodes]@TWC D-Link bookCopper Streak Trail CHAPTER IX 16/28
Get! Found an estate.
Be somebody!" "As for me, I go for a stroll.
You give little Frankie a pain in his feelings! For a crooked tuppence I'd get somebody to wire me to come to New York at once .-- Uttering these intrepid words the brave youth rose gracefully and, without a glance at his detractors, sauntered nonchalantly to the gate .-- Unless, of course, you meant it for my good ?" He bent his brows inquiringly. "We meant it--" said Ferdie, and paused. "-- for your good," said Thompson. "Oh, well, if you meant it for my good!" said Boland graciously.
"All the same, if I ever decide to 'be somebody,' I'm going to be Francis Charles Boland, and not a dismal imitation of a copy of some celebrated poseur--I'll tell you those! Speaking as a man of liberal--or lax--morality, you surprise me.
You are godly and cleanly men; yet, when you saw in me a gem of purest ray serene, did you appeal to my better nature? Nary! In a wild and topsy-turvy world, did you implore me to devote my splendid and unwasted energies in the service of Good, with a capital G? Nix! You appealed to ambition, egotism, and greed....
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