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`` What , for instance ? '' Peter 's hand never moved , nor did his body . `` Why stocks and bonds and money , for instance , '' laughed Jack , beginning to be annoyed at his own tirade -- half ashamed of it in fact . `` Stocks are good enough in their way , but you do n't want to live with them from ten o'clock in the morning till four o'clock in the afternoon , and then hear nothing else talked about until you go to bed . That 's why that dinner last night made such an impression on me . Nobody said money once . '' `` But every one of those men had his own hobby -- '' `` Yes , but in my uncle 's world they all ride one and the same horse .