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Sandra Belloni

CHAPTER XXIV
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An Englishman and a Greek conjoined, zey beat ze world! It is true, ma foi.

For zat, I seek you, and not a countryman.
A Frenchman ?--oh, no! A German ?--not a bit! A Russian ?--never! A Yankee ?--save me! I am a Greek--I take an Englishman." "Well, well, you must leave me to think it over," said Mr.Pole, pleasantly smoothed down.

"As to honesty, that's a matter of course with us: that's the mere footing we go upon.

We don't plume ourselves upon what's general, here.

There is, I regret to say, a difference between us and other nations.


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