[The Early Bird by George Randolph Chester]@TWC D-Link bookThe Early Bird CHAPTER V 13/14
"But truly, father, don't you think he's too much concentrated on business? He hasn't a thought in his mind for anything else.
For instance, this morning he came over to take me an automobile ride around Bald Hill, and when he found out about this walnut grove, without either apology or explanation to me he ordered the chauffeur to drive right down there." "Fine," laughed her father.
"I'd like to hire him for my manager, if I could only offer him enough money.
But I don't see your point of criticism.
It seems to me that he's a mighty presentable and likable young fellow, good looking, and a gentleman in the sense in which I like to use that word." "Yes, he is all of those things," she admitted again; "but it is a flaw in a young man, isn't it," she persisted, betraying an unusually anxious interest, "for him never to think of a solitary thing but just business ?" They were sitting in one of the alcoves of the assembly room, and at that moment a bell-boy, wandering around the place with apparent aimlessness, spied them and brought to Miss Josephine a big box.
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