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A Hungarian Nabob

CHAPTER III
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You please me greatly.

So now you are going to be Whitsun King for a whole year, eh?
What will you do with yourself all that time ?" The youth twisted his blonde moustache upwards, and steadily regarded the ceiling.
"I really don't know.

I only know that I shall be a bigger man than ever before." "And if at the end of the year you are deposed ?" "Then I shall go back to my stable at Nadudvar, from whence I came." "Have you neither father nor mother ?" "I have no belongings at all.

I have never seen either father or mother." "Then stop where you are, Mike.

What if I make a bigger man of you than you yourself have any idea of; make you take your place in genteel society here; give you as much money as you like, to drink and play cards with; and turn you into Michael Kis, Esq., lord of the manor of Nadudvar ?" "I shouldn't mind, but how to conduct myself so that they may take me for a gentleman, I don't know." "The bigger blackguard you are, the greater gentleman they'll take you to be.


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