Ahead of the Show, Or The Adventures of Al Allston, Advance Agent

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Street and Smith, 1897
 

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Page 147 - I bid you good afternoon,' and walked out. Did I do right, sir?" Mr. Rockefeller meditated for an instant and replied thoughtfully : "Whether what you said was right or wise, I would not venture to judge; time alone can answer that question; but I may say to you, my son, that if I had been in your place, I should have done precisely what you did.
Page 189 - Where did you get it? What are you going to do with it?" "I got it in New Dublin," I replied, "and I want it to amuse and occupy me while I am at home. I haven't anything else to do, except things that take me away from you.
Page 32 - Come to the point ; what is it you want me to do ?
Page 28 - ... is a very short time. That trip to Lowestoffe couldn't have been much above a week before you came to me." ''What does it matter?" "Oh no; of course not; — nothing to you. I think I Will go away now, Mr. Montague. It was very good of you to come and tell me all. It makes it so much feasier.
Page 131 - Do you remember what I told you the last time we met, that no power on earth could make me give you up ? I meant what I said, I mean it still.
Page 180 - There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

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