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Men of Affairs

Men of Affairs

Pertwee, Roland

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General Juvenile Fiction

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ISBN10: 1153778254
ISBN13: 9781153778251
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.35 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
Excerpt: ...out of it? What's it matter if he does suffer a bit-he wouldn't be the only one. A millionaire, she repeated, a millionaire-the wife of a railroad king. That's worth something surely. A couple of unruly tears trickled out of her eyes and fell on her lap. It is really too absurd that even the thought of a million pounds cannot prevent a girl from crying. CHAPTER 18. HOLDING OUT. Richard Frencham Altar had a sense of humour but never before in his hitherto easy going life had he so earnestly needed it. A sense of humour in a queer abstract way provides a quality of companionship-it gives a man the power to be a pal to himself-to talk to himself aloud-to laugh at adversity-to spot the comic side in the most pathetic predicament. Each day provided something new in the matter of discomfort or alarm. The calls he was obliged to make upon his resources of humour were therefore severe and exacting. Over and over again he had need to remind himself that there was something classically funny in three financial giants demanding from him information of which he was entirely ignorant and, technically speaking, putting him on the rack in order to obtain it. The fun was grim but it existed. No one ever thought of mentioning what it was they wanted to find out-doubtless assuming that to do so was waste of time. For his own satisfaction Richard would dearly have loved to ask point blank what it was all about, but to indulge curiosity to that extent would be to imperil the safety of the cause he represented. To keep a record of days he made a scratch on the wall paper each morning with his finger nail. There were seventeen scratches in all and he was as proud of them as an old campaigner of his medals for they stood for seventeen successful engagements. Whoever it was had charge of arranging his persecution lacked nothing in the way of imagination. Methods of destroying his repose and a course of rigorous fasting were prominent features but these were...

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