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The Imperialist

CHAPTER XXIII
18/21

A man like that is in a position to do some good, and I hope Hesketh will get a chance if he stays over here.

We'll soon see how he speaks.

He's going to follow Farquharson at Jordanville on Thursday week." "I wonder at Farquharson," said his father.
By this time the candidature of Mr Lorne Murchison was well in the public eye.

The Express announced it in a burst of beaming headlines, with a biographical sketch and a "cut" of its young fellow-townsman.
Horace Williams, whose hand was plain in every line apologized for the brevity of the biography--quality rather than quantity, he said; it was all good, and time would make it better.

This did not prevent the Mercury observing the next evening that the Liberal organ had omitted to state the age at which the new candidate was weaned.


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