[The Fortunate Youth by William J. Locke]@TWC D-Link bookThe Fortunate Youth CHAPTER XXIII 7/47
Do you wait at table and hand little dishes to coster-mongers, ancien regime, en emigre ?" She laughed deliciously.
Suddenly she paused, regarded him wide-eyed, with a smile on her lips. "Tiens! I have an idea.
But a wonderful ideal Why should I not be the fried-fish queen? Issue new shares.
I buy them all up.
We establish fish palaces all over the world? But why not? I am in trade already. Only yesterday my homme d'affaires sent me for signature a dirty piece of blue paper all covered with execrable writing and imitation red seals all the way down, and when I signed it I saw I was interested in Messrs.
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