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The Imperialist

CHAPTER XII
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"That would be something to tell your mother, wouldn't it?
But I'm afraid we won't be doing business with His Majesty." "I expect you'll have the loveliest time you ever had in all your life.
Do you think you'll be asked out much, Lorne ?" "I can't imagine who would ask me.

We'll get off easy if the street boys don't shout: 'What price Canucks ?' at us! But I'll see England, Dora; I'll feel England, eat and drink and sleep and live in England, for a little while.

Isn't the very name great?
I'll be a better man for going, till I die.

We're all right out here, but we're young and thin and weedy.

They didn't grow so fast in England, to begin with, and now they're rich with character and strong with conduct and hoary with ideals.


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