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The American Baron

CHAPTER XIV
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Oh, I tell you what, I ain't a bit of a brag, but I'm _some_ here.

The men think I'm a little the tallest lot in the shape of a commander they ever _did_ see.

When I'm in Rome I do as the Romans do, and so I let fly at them a speech every now and then.

Why, I've gone through nearly the whole 'National Speaker' by this time.

I've given them Marcellus's speech to the mob, Brutus's to the Romans, and Antony's over Caesar's dead body.


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