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Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

CHAPTER FIVE
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I didn't mean to be disparaging.

You seem very patriotic." "The place is lovable, if only by its situation.

Perhaps you don't know what an old resident I am." "How old, I wonder," he murmured, looking at her with a slight smile.
Mrs.Gould's appearance was made youthful by the mobile intelligence of her face.

"We can't give you your ecclesiastical court back again; but you shall have more steamers, a railway, a telegraph-cable--a future in the great world which is worth infinitely more than any amount of ecclesiastical past.

You shall be brought in touch with something greater than two viceroyalties.


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