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Demos

CHAPTER VII
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He looked at her in the same way now.
'Did you?
How did he impress you ?' 'He is not quite the man I had expected; more civilised.

I should suppose he is the better kind of artisan.

He talks with a good deal of the working-class accent, of course, but not like a wholly uneducated man.' 'His letter, you remember, was anything but illiterate.

I feel I ought to ask him to come and see me before we leave.' 'The correspondence surely suffices.' 'You expressed my thanks ?' 'Conscientiously.' 'I see you found the interview rather difficult, Hubert.' 'How could it be otherwise?
The man is well enough, of his kind, but the kind is detestable.' 'Did he try to convert you to Socialism ?' asked his mother, smiling in her sad way.
'I imagine he discerned the hopelessness of such an under taking.

We had a little passage of arms,--quite within the bounds of civility.


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