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The Grand Babylon Hotel

CHAPTER Four ENTRANCE OF THE PRINCE
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I shall take rooms in Albemarle Street or Jermyn Street, and just be content to be a man-about-town.

I have saved some twenty thousand pounds--a mere trifle, but sufficient for my needs, and I shall now proceed to enjoy it.

Pardon me for troubling you with my personal affairs.

And good-day again.' That afternoon Racksole went with Felix Babylon first to a firm of solicitors in the City, and then to a stockbroker, in order to carry out the practical details of the purchase of the hotel.
'I mean to settle in England,' said Racksole, as they were coming back.
'It is the only country--' and he stopped.
'The only country ?' 'The only country where you can invest money and spend money with a feeling of security.

In the United States there is nothing worth spending money on, nothing to buy.


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