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The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton

CHAPTER XXII
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Have you no desire to travel?
Have you no desire to see the famous picture galleries and cities of the Continent, cities which have been the birthplaces of the men whose works you and your son in days to come will regard with so much reverence ?" "I should like to travel very much indeed," Burton admitted.
"It is the opportunity to travel which we offer you," Mr.Bomford reminded him.

"It is the opportunity to surround yourself with beautiful objects, the opportunity to make your life free from anxieties, a cultured phase of being during which, removed from all material cares, you can--er--develop yourself and the boy in any direction you choose." Mr.Bomford stopped and coughed.

Again he was pleased with himself.
"Money is only vulgar," he went on, "to vulgar minds.

And remember this--that underlying the whole thing there is Truth.

The beans which you and the boy have eaten do contain something of the miraculous.
Those same constituents would be blended in the preparation which we shall offer to the public.


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