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The American

CHAPTER II
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At any rate, the place amuses me.

Hang your elegance, if it bores me.

I sat in the court of the Grand Hotel last night until two o'clock in the morning, watching the coming and going, and the people knocking about." "You're easily pleased.

But you can do as you choose--a man in your shoes.

You have made a pile of money, eh ?" "I have made enough" "Happy the man who can say that?
Enough for what ?" "Enough to rest awhile, to forget the confounded thing, to look about me, to see the world, to have a good time, to improve my mind, and, if the fancy takes me, to marry a wife." Newman spoke slowly, with a certain dryness of accent and with frequent pauses.


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