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The Napoleon of Notting Hill

CHAPTER II--_The Man in Green_
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Wherever there is a field of marigolds and the red cloak of an old woman, there is Nicaragua.

Wherever there is a field of poppies and a yellow patch of sand, there is Nicaragua.
Wherever there is a lemon and a red sunset, there is my country.
Wherever I see a red pillar-box and a yellow sunset, there my heart beats.

Blood and a splash of mustard can be my heraldry.

If there be yellow mud and red mud in the same ditch, it is better to me than white stars." "And if," said Quin, with equal enthusiasm, "there should happen to be yellow wine and red wine at the same lunch, you could not confine yourself to sherry.

Let me order some Burgundy, and complete, as it were, a sort of Nicaraguan heraldry in your inside." Barker was fiddling with his knife, and was evidently making up his mind to say something, with the intense nervousness of the amiable Englishman.
"I am to understand, then," he said at last, with a cough, "that you, ahem, were the President of Nicaragua when it made its--er--one must, of course, agree--its quite heroic resistance to--er--" The ex-President of Nicaragua waved his hand.
"You need not hesitate in speaking to me," he said.


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