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Denzil Quarrier

CHAPTER XI
8/16

You spoil me--make me think myself a fine fellow.

I suppose one's wife ought to talk like that--I don't dislike it, you know; but if I end by never doing anything at all, I should be confoundedly ashamed of myself.

But the more I think of it, the better satisfied I am that a political career is the best thing for me.

You see, this is the age of political progress--that before everything.

We English are working out our revolution in a steady and sensible way,--no shrieking and slaughtering--we leave that to people who don't really know what they want, and will never get much to speak of.


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