[The Monikins by J. Fenimore Cooper]@TWC D-Link bookThe Monikins CHAPTER XVII 1/20
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NEW LORDS, NEW LAWS--GYRATION, ROTATION, AND ANOTHER. NATION; ALSO AN INVITATION. I felt that my situation had now become exceedingly peculiar.
It is true that my modesty had been unexpectedly spared, by the very ingenious turn Dr.Reasono had given to the history of our connection with each other; but I could not see that I had gained any other advantage by the expedient.
All my own species had, in a sense, cut me; and I was obliged to turn despondingly, and not without humiliation, towards the inn, where the banquet ordered by Mr.Poke waited our appearance. I had reached the great square, when a tap on the knee drew my attention to one at my side.
The applicant for notice was a monikin, who had all the physical peculiarities of a subject of Leaphigh, and yet, who was to be distinguished from most of the inhabitants of that country, by a longer and less cultivated nap to his natural garment, greater shrewdness about the expression of the eyes and the mouth, a general air of business, and, for a novelty, a bob-cauda.
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