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Gradually, word spread from cave to cave that school was fun. Soon Father Andres found that he could hardly keep up with his swelling classes. Every penny he saved went into the school fund. He begged land and donations from friends, even sold the jeweled decoration that King Alfonso XIII had given him ("What use have I for this fancy bauble?"). He began a special class for future teachers, started his two nephews toward the priesthood. Today, 30 years after his death, Ave Maria still flourishes, run by 75-year-old nephew Pedro...
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Some collectors pay special prices for African tribal warriors, ancient Greeks or Roman legionaries. One specialist can proudly assemble a dramatic tableau of the rape of the Sabine women. But mostly the Paris trade is in old soldiers of Louis XIII, XIV, XV and the First Empire...
...mine into a fortune estimated at a cool $1 billion. His annual income used to surpass the government's. He formed a world cartel, bought heavily into Malayan tin, and lived abroad like an emperor, marrying his son Antenor to a niece of Spain's Alfonso XIII, his daughters to a French count and a Spanish grandee of such exalted lineage that he was entitled to keep his hat on while chatting with his king. Making himself Bolivian minister to France (to avoid the nuisance of paying French taxes), old Simón handsomely built his own legation...
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