The Gilded Age


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east and started the money along. Now things were blooming and pleasant  
again, but the men had no money, and nothing to live on. The Colonel  
divided with them the money he still had in bank--an act which had  
nothing surprising about it because he was generally ready to divide  
whatever he had with anybody that wanted it, and it was owing to this  
very trait that his family spent their days in poverty and at times were  
pinched with famine.  
When the men's minds had cooled and Sellers was gone, they hated  
themselves for letting him beguile them with fine speeches, but it was  
too late, now--they agreed to hang him another time--such time as  
Providence should appoint.  
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