[The Colossus by Opie Read]@TWC D-Link bookThe Colossus CHAPTER XXXII 3/13
And you're just in time for breakfast.
Ellen, _will_ you please get out of the way? And what do you mean by saying that he's darker than ever ?" Here she gave DeGolyer an anxious look.
"But you are not ill, are you, my son ?" "Ill!" Witherspoon repeated, with resentment.
"Of course he's not ill. What do you mean by ill? Do you expect a man to travel a thousand miles and then look like a rose? Is breakfast ready? Well, come then. We've got business to attend to." "Now, as to this man who wants to buy my paper," said DeGolyer, when they were seated at the table, "let me tell you that he is a most peculiar fellow, and if he finds that I am anxious to sell, he'll back out.
Therefore I don't think you'd better see him, father." "Nonsense, my dear boy; I can make him buy in three minutes." "That may be, but you might scare him off in one minute.
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