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The Gentleman From Indiana

CHAPTER XIX
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We are people who take what comes to us, and it comes bountifully; we are rich--oh, we are all Americans here!...

This is the place for a man who likes to live where people are kind to one another, and where they have the old-fashioned way of saying 'Home.' Other places, they don't seem to get so much into it as we do.

And to come home as I have to-day....

I have come home...." Every one meant to shake hands with him, and, when the speech was over, those nearest swooped upon him, cheering and waving, and grasping at his hand.

Then a line was formed, and they began to defile by him, as he stood on the steps, and one by one they came up, and gave him hearty greetings, and passed on through the court-house and out at the south door.


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