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The American

CHAPTER VI
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"If she really tried, now?
She can express displeasure, volubly, in two or three languages; that's what it is to be intellectual.

It gives her the start of me completely, for I can't swear, for the life of me, except in English.

When I get mad I have to fall back on our dear old mother tongue.

There's nothing like it, after all." Newman declared that he knew nothing about tables and chairs, and that he would accept, in the way of a lodging, with his eyes shut, anything that Tristram should offer him.

This was partly veracity on our hero's part, but it was also partly charity.


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