| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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saying we don't mean to sell. We shall say that we've overcome all the initial expenses and difficulties connected with the installation of the works - that we are only just beginning to reap the reward of our industry and enterprise, and so on. `Then,' continued the Chief, `we can arrange for it to be proposed in the Council that the Town should purchase the Electric Light Works.' `But not by one of us four, you know,' said Grinder with a cunning leer. `Certainly not; that would give the show away at once. There are, as you know - several members of the Band who are not shareholders in the company; we'll get some of them to do most of the talking. We, being the directors of the company, must pretend to be against selling, and stick out for our own price; and when we do finally consent we must make out that we are sacrificing our private interests |
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