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The Imperialist

CHAPTER XIX
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But I suppose he's pretty sure to be nice.

Any friend of the Emmetts--What is he like, Lorne ?" "Oh, he's just a young man with a moustache! You seem to see a good many over there.

They're all alike while they're at school in round coats, and after they leave school they get moustaches, and then they're all alike again." "I wish you wouldn't tease.

How tall is he?
Is he fair or dark?
What colour are his eyes ?" Lorne buried his head in his hands in a pretended agony of recollection.
"So far as I remember, not exactly tall, but you wouldn't call him short.

Complexion--well, don't you know ?--that kind of middling complexion.


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