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The Attache

CHAPTER VII
10/14

Remember me again, Sir.
Thank your honour.

Now you may go and break your neck, your honour, as soon as you please; for I've got all out of you I can squeeze, that's a fact.

That's English, Squire--that's English servility, which they call civility, and English meanness and beggin', which they call parquisite.
Who was that you wanted to see the Minister, that I heerd you a talkin' of when I come on deck ?" "The Secretary of the Colonies," I said.
"Oh for goodness sake don't send that crittur to him," said he, "or minister will have to pay him for his visit, more, p'raps, than he can afford.

John Russell, that had the ribbons afore him, appointed a settler as a member of Legislative Council to Prince Edward's Island, a berth that has no pay, that takes a feller three months a year from home, and has a horrid sight to do; and what do you think he did?
Now jist guess.

You give it up, do you?
Well, you might as well, for if you was five Yankees biled down to one, you wouldn't guess it.


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