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Nobody’s Man

CHAPTER III
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I think that I shall settle down here altogether.

I can just afford to live here if I shoot plenty of rabbits, and if Robert's rheumatism is not too bad for him to look after the vegetable garden." "Of course you are talking nonsense," she pronounced, a little curtly.
"Why nonsense ?" "You must go back to your work," she insisted.
"Keep this place for your holiday moments, certainly, but for the rest, to talk of settling down here is simply wicked." "What is my work ?" he asked.

"I tell you frankly that I do not know where I belong.

A very intelligent constituency, stuffed up to the throat with schoolboard education, has determined that it would prefer a representative who has changed his politics already four times.

I seem to be nobody's man.


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