[The Kingdom of the Blind by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Kingdom of the Blind CHAPTER XVI 9/23
The two men who had been discussing him passed out of the room presently one of them glanced backwards in his direction. "After all, I suppose," he observed, as he passed down the hall, "there is something great about wealth or else one wouldn't believe that old Anselman there was thinking of his money-bags.
Why, here's Granet.
Good fellow! I'd no idea you'd joined this august company of old fogies." Granet smiled as he shook hands. "I haven't," he explained.
"You have to be a millionaire, don't you, and a great political bug, before they'd let you in? No place for poor soldiers! I have to be content with the Rag." "Poor devil!" his friend remarked sympathetically,--"best cooking, best wines in London.
These Service men look after themselves all right.
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