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THE LAND OF MANY NAMES
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to hope that you also have come to take shares in my organisations?
First Sandwichman:
The magnificent Dollarson organisations.
Second Sandwichman:
The greatest prosperity and gain!
Vandergold:
Not a bit of it.
Dollarson:
Then perhaps I may assume that you have made speculations of your own? Although I did not hear that you were concerned in anything. And yet I am surprised, where so splendid an object
Vandergold:
No.
First and Second Sandwichmen:
Listen! Dollarson has surpassed Vandergold.
Dollarson:
Ah, my friend, a strong man does not allow events to take him by surprise.
Vandergold:
You haven’t let the events take you by surprise?
Dollarson:
That I haven’t. Just look at all I am doing.