[The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling]@TWC D-Link bookThe Light That Failed CHAPTER IV 18/38
Even you are not foolish enough to suppose that theatres and all the live things you can by thereabouts mean Life. What earthly need have you for money ?' 'It's there, bless its golden heart,' said Dick.
'It's there all the time. Providence has sent me nuts while I have teeth to crack 'em with.
I haven't yet found the nut I wish to crack, but I'm keeping my teeth filed. Perhaps some day you and I will go for a walk round the wide earth.' 'With no work to do, nobody to worry us, and nobody to compete with? You would be unfit to speak to in a week.
Besides, I shouldn't go.
I don't care to profit by the price of a man's soul,--for that's what it would mean. Dick, it's no use arguing.
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