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166 did seem deuced hard that you should enter into competition with us poor devils.' So I reminded him that the thoroughbreds and the pictures and a few other things were going under the hammer, and the wretch actually grinned. But I 'll tell you what I have found out lately—that there 's such a thing as good-fellowship in the world. There is n't any among rich men. They are all bent on amusing themselves or being amused. They are so perfectly independent of each other that there is n't any room for sentiment—while among poorer men they are all interdependent. They have to help each other along in pleasures and work, and that sort of thing—and that's why it is that comradeship exists among them as it cannot exist among the rich."

"I never knew anything about money until that visit to Newport," said Letty, candidly. "We had bills—and when the wheat crop was sold it paid the bills—that is, as far as it would go—for the wheat crop never was quite as much as we expected, and the bills were always a great deal more than we expected. But I found the spending of that money in New York delightful."

"So did I," answered Farebrother. "Never