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Denzil Quarrier

CHAPTER XI
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There's no place like England.

Don't you ever think what an unspeakable blessing it is to have been born in England?
Every time I go abroad, I rejoice that I am not as these foreigners.

Even my Scandinavian friends I can't help despising a little--and as for Frenchmen! There's a great deal of the old island prejudice in me." Lilian smiled, raising herself slightly upon the sofa.
"These old Latin nations have had their day," he continued, with a wave of the arm.

"France, Italy, Spain--they have played their part in civilization, and have nothing left now but old relics and modern bluster.

The future's with us Teutons.


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