[Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner]@TWC D-Link bookHills of the Shatemuc CHAPTER XII 7/18
Mr. Haye may hold his own, though; and I am sure I hope he will -- for his sake and her sake, both." "He is a good business man, isn't he, sir ?" "There aint a better business man, I'll engage, than he is, in the whole city of Mannahatta; and that numbers now, -- sixty odd thousand, by the last census.
He knows how to take care of himself, as well as any man I ever saw." "Then he bids fair to stand ?" "I don't believe anybody bids fairer.
He was trying to make a business man of you, wa'n't he, the other day ?" "He was saying something about it." "Would you like that ?" "Not in the first place, sir." "No.
Ah well -- we'll see, -- we'll see," said Mr.Landholm rising up; -- "we'll try and do the best we can." What was that? A question much mooted, by different people and in very different moods; but perhaps most anxiously and carefully by the father and mother.
And the end was, that he would borrow money of somebody, -- say of Mr.Haye, -- and they would let both the boys go that fall to College.
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