[The Sleeper Awakes by H.G. Wells]@TWC D-Link bookThe Sleeper Awakes CHAPTER II 12/22
And he looks a young man still.
Yellow perhaps. But that _is_ a young man nevertheless." "And there's been the War," said Isbister. "From beginning to end." "And these Martians." "I've understood," said Isbister after a pause, "that he had some moderate property of his own ?" "That is so," said Warming.
He coughed primly.
"As it happens--I have charge of it." "Ah!" Isbister thought, hesitated and spoke: "No doubt--his keep here is not expensive--no doubt it will have improved--accumulated ?" "It has.
He will wake up very much better off--if he wakes--than when he slept." "As a business man," said Isbister, "that thought has naturally been in my mind.
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