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The Imperialist

CHAPTER XVII
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None dreamed of staying, of "settling," though such a course was practicable to any of them except Lorne.

They were all rich enough to take the advantages that money brings in England, the comfort, the importance, the state; they had only to add their wealth to the sumptuous side of the dramatic contrast.

I doubt whether the idea even presented itself.

It is the American who takes up his appreciative residence in England.

He comes as a foreigner, observant, amused, having disclaimed responsibility for a hundred years.


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