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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Atoms of Empire

Atoms of Empire

Hyne, C. J. Cutcliffe

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1727489632
ISBN13: 9781727489637
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 7 2018
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
WHAT on earth does the Chief have an animal like this Padgett to dine in Government House for? asked Day ton-Philipps, querulously. I expected to rough it, of course, when I came out here to the Coast, because they promised us active service, but hang me if ever I expected to rough it at the Governor's dinner-table with a missionary-thing like that. Why, the fellow hadn't got an aitch to his name; he stoked with his knife all the time; and when he got a fresh stock of perspiration on his forehead my aunt! he was too awful for anything. Forbes, the Colonial Secretary, fanned himself in his long-sleeved Madeira chair, and suggested lazily that Dayton-Philipps had been taken out of lavender too soon, and sent out into the warm, wide world too early. We're a primitive people, we Coasters, said Forbes. If a man has a white skin and a dress coat, we ask him to dinner. You're too fastidious. Rot! said Dayton-Philipps. And, besides, the Padgett person hadn't a dress coat.

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