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Our Mutual Friend

CHAPTER 11
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No Other Country is so Favoured as This Country.' 'And ozer countries?
--' the foreign gentleman was beginning, when Mr Podsnap put him right again.
'We do not say Ozer; we say Other: the letters are "T" and "H;" You say Tay and Aish, You Know; (still with clemency).

The sound is "th"-- "th!"' 'And OTHER countries,' said the foreign gentleman.

'They do how ?' 'They do, Sir,' returned Mr Podsnap, gravely shaking his head; 'they do--I am sorry to be obliged to say it--AS they do.' 'It was a little particular of Providence,' said the foreign gentleman, laughing; 'for the frontier is not large.' 'Undoubtedly,' assented Mr Podsnap; 'But So it is.

It was the Charter of the Land.

This Island was Blest, Sir, to the Direct Exclusion of such Other Countries as--as there may happen to be.


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