[A Hungarian Nabob by Maurus Jokai]@TWC D-Link bookA Hungarian Nabob CHAPTER XIV 5/8
Don't be angry with me if I ask you to do me a favour ?" "Ask not one favour, but a thousand favours!" cried Karpathy, rejoicing that his wife asked anything of him at all. "Are you not getting ready a new mansion at Pest ?" asked Fanny. "You wish to live there, perhaps ?" cried Karpathy, hastening to anticipate his wife's wishes.
"You can take possession of it at a moment's notice, and, if you don't like it, and want something more handsome, I'll have another built for you this winter." "Thanks, but I shall be quite satisfied with the one at Pest.
I have been thinking to myself what an entirely new life we'll begin to live there together." "Yes, indeed; we will have lots of company, and of the merriest,--splendid parties----" "I did not mean that.
I am thinking of serious things, of charitable objects.
Oh! we who are rich have so many obligations towards the suffering, towards the community, towards humanity." Poor woman! how she would have escaped from her own burning heart amidst coldly sublime ideas! "As you please.
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