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Lady Merton, Colonist

CHAPTER XIV
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Has he been saying that to you?
All the same--_ma collegue_--I am disappointed in you!" Elizabeth's eye wavered under his.
"We agreed, did we not--at Glacier--on what was to be done next to our friend?
Oh! don't dispute! I laid it down--and you accepted it.

As for me, I have done nothing but pursue that object ever since--in my own way.

And you, Madam ?" As he stood over her, a lean Don Quixotish figure, his long arms akimbo, Elizabeth's fluttering laugh broke out.
"Inquisitor! Good night!" "Good night--but--just a word! Anderson has done well here.

Your public men say agreeable things of him.

He will play your English game--your English Imperialist game--which I can't play.


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