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The Magnificent Ambersons

CHAPTER III
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I guess we might as well play cards.

Anybody that's game for a little quarter-limit poker or any limit they say, why I'd like to have 'em sit at the president's card-table." When the diversions of the Friends of the Ace were concluded for that afternoon, Georgie invited his chief supporter, Mr.Charlie Johnson, to drive home with him to dinner, and as they jingled up National Avenue in the dog-cart, Charlie asked: "What sort of men did you run up against at that school, George ?" "Best crowd there: finest set of men I ever met." "How'd you get in with 'em ?" Georgie laughed.

"I let them get in with me, Charlie," he said in a tone of gentle explanation.

"It's vulgar to do any other way.

Did I tell you the nickname they gave me--'King'?
That was what they called me at that school, 'King Minafer." "How'd they happen to do that ?" his friend asked innocently.
"Oh, different things," George answered lightly.


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