[A Hungarian Nabob by Maurus Jokai]@TWC D-Link bookA Hungarian Nabob CHAPTER III 32/45
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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