[Austin and His Friends by Frederic H. Balfour]@TWC D-Link bookAustin and His Friends CHAPTER the Seventh 4/52
It is the outcome of a great chemical analysis." "Oh, pray tell me all about it; I am so interested!" urged Aunt Charlotte, eagerly.
"You know what confidence I have in your judgment. Has it anything to do with raw material? It isn't a plantation anywhere, is it ?" "It's gold!" said Mr Sheepshanks. "Gold ?" repeated Aunt Charlotte, rather taken aback.
"A gold mine, I suppose you mean ?" "The hugest gold-mine in the world," replied the vicar, enjoying her evident perplexity.
"An inexhaustible gold mine.
A gold mine without limits." "But where--whereabouts is it ?" cried Aunt Charlotte. "All around you," said the vicar, waving his hands vaguely in the air. "Not in any country at all, but everywhere else.
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