[The Colossus by Opie Read]@TWC D-Link bookThe Colossus CHAPTER II 5/8
Is that Henry coming? Hush." The young man bounded into the room.
"Say," he cried, "I've bargained for six of the biggest monkeys you ever saw.
That old fellow "-- "Henry," the uncle interrupted, taking up a hat and fanning his purplish face, "you are getting too old for that sort of foolishness. You are a man, you must remember, and it may not be long until you'll be called upon to exercise the judgment of a man." "Oh, I was going to buy the monkeys and sell them again for three times as much as I gave for them, but you bet that when I'm called on to exercise the judgment, of a man I'll be there.
And do you think that I'd fool with mines or anything else in this country? I wouldn't.
I'd go to some American city and make money.
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