[The Financier by Theodore Dreiser]@TWC D-Link bookThe Financier CHAPTER II 14/20
I'll send Manuel over with them in the morning." He plucked at the vines, tweaked Edward's ear, told Joseph, the second boy, he would bring him an Indian tomahawk, and went back into the house. "This is the lad that interests me," he said, after a time, laying a hand on the shoulder of Frank.
"What did you name him in full, Henry ?" "Frank Algernon." "Well, you might have named him after me.
There's something to this boy. How would you like to come down to Cuba and be a planter, my boy ?" "I'm not so sure that I'd like to," replied the eldest. "Well, that's straight-spoken.
What have you against it ?" "Nothing, except that I don't know anything about it." "What do you know ?" The boy smiled wisely.
"Not very much, I guess." "Well, what are you interested in ?" "Money!" "Aha! What's bred in the bone, eh? Get something of that from your father, eh? Well, that's a good trait.
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