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Evan Harrington

CHAPTER XIII
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The field took breath with the heroes; and presume not to doubt that heroes they are.
It is good to win glory for your country; it is also good to win glory for your village.

A Member of Parliament, Sir George Lowton, notes this emphatically, from the statesman's eminence, to a group of gentlemen on horseback round a carriage wherein a couple of fair ladies reclined.
'They didn't shout more at the news of the Battle of Waterloo.

Now this is our peculiarity, this absence of extreme centralization.

It must be encouraged.

Local jealousies, local rivalries, local triumphs--these are the strength of the kingdom.' 'If you mean to say that cricket's a -- --' the old squire speaking (Squire Uplift of Fallow field) remembered the saving presences, and coughed--'good thing, I'm one with ye, Sir George.


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