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The Imperialist

CHAPTER XX
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You must get Lorne to take you over Elgin.

It's a fair sample of our rising manufacturing towns." "I hope he will.

I understand you manufacture to some extent yourself ?" "We make our own stoves and a few odd things." "You don't send any across the Atlantic yet ?" queried Hesketh jocularly.
"Not yet.

No, sir!" Then did Mr Hesketh show himself in true sympathy with the novel and independent conditions of the commonwealth he found himself in.
"I beg you won't use that form with me," he said, "I know it isn't the custom of the country, and I am a friend of your son's, you see." The iron merchant looked at him, just an instant's regard, in which astonishment struggled with the usual deliberation.

Then his considering hand went to his chin.
"I see.


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