[The Attache by Thomas Chandler Haliburton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Attache CHAPTER VII 28/30
Whereabouts was we ?" "You were saying that there were more things to be seen in London than in the country." "Exactly; now I have it.
I've got the thread agin.
So there is. "There's England's Queen, and England's Prince, and Hanover's King, and the old Swordbelt that whopped Bony; and he is better worth seem' than any man now livin' on the face of the univarsal airth, let t'other one be where he will, that's a fact.
He is a great man, all through the piece, and no mistake.
If there was--what do you call that word, when one man's breath pops into 'nother man's body, changin' lodgins, like ?" "Do you mean transmigration ?" "Yes; if there was such a thing as that, I should say it was old Liveoak himself, Mr.Washington, that was transmigrated into him, and that's no mean thing to say of him, I tell you. "Well now, there's none o' these things to the country; and it's so everlastin' stupid, it's only a Britisher and a nigger that could live in an English country-house.
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