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Around The Tea-Table

CHAPTER VII
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Suffice it he is a foreigner, and that is enough to make us all go wild.

A foreigner does not need more than half as much brain or heart to do twice as well as an American, either at preaching or lecturing.

There is for many Americans a bewitchment in a foreign brogue.

I do not know but that he may have dined with the queen, or have a few drops of lordly blood distributed through his arteries.
I notice, however, that much of this charm has been broken.

I used to think that all English lords were talented, till I heard one of them make the only poor speech that was made at the opening meeting of the Evangelical Alliance.


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