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A Voyage of Consolation

CHAPTER VI
16/23

A presidential election's bad for business, bad for politics, bad for morals." "You seem to know.

Doesn't it ever make you tired to hear yourselves called subjects?
Don't you ever want to be free and equal, like us?
Trot out the truth now--the George Washington article!" "Mister," said Mr.Pabbley, "I flatter myself that Canadians are a good deal like United States folks already, and I don't mind congratulating both our nations on the resemblance.

But I'm bound to add that, while I would wish to imitate the American people in many ways still further, I wouldn't be like you personally, no, not under any circumstances nor in any respect." At this moment it was necessary to dismount, and, as poppa and I both immediately became engaged in reconciling momma to the necessity of walking to the top of the plateau, I lost the rest of the conversation.
Momma, when it was necessary to walk anywhere, always became pathetic and offered to stay behind alone.

She declared on this occasion that she would be perfectly happy in the coach with the dear horses, and poppa had to resort to extreme measures.

"Please yourself, Augusta," he said.
"Your lightest whim is law to me, and you know it.


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