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The Attache

CHAPTER I
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If I can't walk into a man, I can dodge round him; and if he is too nimble for that, I can jump over him; and if he is too tall for that, although I don't like the play, yet I can whip him.
"Now, Squire, I have been a good deal to England, and crossed this big pond here the matter of seven times, and know a good deal about it, more than a great many folks that have writtin' books on it, p'raps.

Mind what I tell you, the English ain't what they was.

I'm not speakin' in jeest now, or in prejudice.

I hante a grain of prejudice in me.

I've see'd too much of the world for that I reckon.


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