An African Millionaire - Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay

Grant Allen

Capitolo 59

the first sum of the Account to the extreme florin. It was a very great
respect. We spoke and shilly-shallied up to Mr. Charles grew angry.
Him finally lost his/her temperament.

"Yours know that I am a millionaire, Sey" that he has said, "and they is playing
the old game to try to tangle me. But I won't be tangled. Except
Colonel Clay, any man has ever succeeded still in to bleed me. And
I did me bleeds as if I were a chamois among these
innocent mountains? The thought perish!" Then he reflected a little
in silence. "Sey", him the mused on, finally, "the question is, _are_
them innocent? You know, I start to believe there is anybody this way
what it went away wherever as former innocence. This Tirolean Account knows
the value of a pound as separately as if he hung out in Court of Capel
or Kimberley."

Things dragged so above in, inconclusively, for a week or two.
_We_ offers down;  the lawyers hammered him to him. Mr. that Charles is grown ill mean
of the foolish and whole business. For mine own part, I felt me sure if the
Account of good family and tall it didn't accelerate his/her rhythm, mine respected relative
you/he/she would have had together shortly enough of the Tyrol, and it is impermeable
against the most beautiful of castles of steeple-crowning. But the Account
don't see him/it. He came to call on us to our hotel--a rare honour for
an extraneous with these haughty and Tirolean and exclusive nobles--and
also entered not announced in the friendliest way. But when it
come to s of L..  d., he was absolute diamond. Not a kreutzer they are able
he decreases from his/her original proposal.

"You incomprende", he said, with pride. "Us Tirolean gentlemen are
not storekeepers or dealers. We don't make higgle. If we say a thing us
hammer to him. It was you an Austrian, I should feel insults me from Your
sick-considered you try to demolish my price. But as You belongs to a
great commercial nation--" he broke away with a puff and shrugged
his/her shoulders compassionately.

We saw him/it to us driving a lot of times in and out of the schloss, and
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