Capitolo 82
candle to You. But in my humbler walk of the life I know only as to
Use him. I conduct her on, where you think that you will earn of it
advantage on others; and playing rightly on Your love of
a good bargain, Your innate desire to better someone other--I succeed
in besting You. There, gentleman, you have the philosophy of ours mutual
relationships."
He arched and it raised his/her beret. Charles looked at him and crouched. Yes,
genius as him is, he positively crouched. "And you mean to say,"
does it burst out, "you intend to keep on bleeding me this way?"
The Colonel smiled a kind smile. "Mr. Charles Vandrift", him
answered, "I called just now her the goose that places the gilded one
eggs. You has been able to think the metaphor an ill-mannered. But You _are_
a goose, you know, in the certain relationships. More intelligent man on the Escort
Exchanges, I quickly admit; I shock easier to deceive in the
country open with that I ever met. You fail in a thing--the
the perspicacity of the simplicity. For that reason, among others I have
select to assure on you. Concern me, my dear gentleman as a microbe of
millionaires, a parasite on capitalistic. You know the old rhyme:
Fleas Grans have the small fleas on their backs to bite 'the em,
And these have again smaller fleas, and so infinitum of the announcement!
That is well only, as I see me. _You_ is a capitalist and a
millionaire. In _your_ the great way You prey on society. You give in
Angles, Choices, Concessions, Verified. You exhaust the world
dry of his/her blood and his/her money. You possess, as the mosquito, a
beautiful tool of suction--Founders' Actions--with which You
absorbs the wealth surplus of the community. In _my_ the smallest way,
of, new _I_ L' assuages to turn of a portion of the looting. I am a
Robin Cofano of my age; and, unusually reputing _you_ as an I win
millionaire's form--as an easy form unusually of pigeon
for a man of my type and my talents to tear--I have, so to speak,
taken on my abode on you."
Charles looked at him and groaned.
The youth continued, in a tone of kind badinage. "I love the