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But they shall deceive me no more, and I will be represented by some good and honest countryman. -- Bah, you will re-elect the worthy General. -- I? I re-elect the General to give away my wine to Africans and manufacturers? -- You will re-elect him, I say. -- That is a little _too much_.
I will not re-elect him, if I do not want to. -- But you will want to, and you will re-elect him. -- Let him come here and try.
He will see who he will have to settle with. -- We shall see.
Good bye.
I take away your six hogsheads, and will proceed to divide them as the General has directed. XI. UTOPIAN IDEAS. If I were His Majesty's Minister! -- Well, what would you do? -- I should begin by--by--upon my word, by being very much embarrassed. For I should be Minister only because I had the majority, and I should have that only because I had made it, and I could only have made it, honestly at least, by governing according to its ideas.
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