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The American

CHAPTER III
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"I am not cultivated, I am not even educated; I know nothing about history, or art, or foreign tongues, or any other learned matters.

But I am not a fool, either, and I shall undertake to know something about Europe by the time I have done with it.

I feel something under my ribs here," he added in a moment, "that I can't explain--a sort of a mighty hankering, a desire to stretch out and haul in." "Bravo!" said Mrs.Tristram, "that is very fine.

You are the great Western Barbarian, stepping forth in his innocence and might, gazing a while at this poor effete Old World and then swooping down on it." "Oh, come," said Newman.

"I am not a barbarian, by a good deal.


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