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There are always old bush lawyers and city know-alls beside whom Chamberlain and Roberts are but small tomahawks as empire-builders, and these now were predicting that to make a nation of her Australia needed war and many other disasters to harden her people from the amusement-loving, sunny-eyed folk they were; but this was an extremist's outlook.
A few will pretend they do there are know-alls in every audience; the majority will take their cue from them, and that will settle the matter." "I tumble. But might I ask if you have any choice in the operatic selection."
He met by the river two men, sleek people in silk hats, with plump hands hands which looked as if they were carefully fed on very nutritious food every day by their owners warmly covered. As they passed him one of those know-alls said to the other: "Oh, it'll only be a potty little war. What can a handful of peasants do against our men?
"That's a lighthouse, isn't it?" asked Jim, who had a sailor's eye. "Yes," growled Captain Jeb, his leathery face darkening. "Why they wanted to set up that consarned thing just across from Killykinick, I don't know. Hedn't we been showing a light thar for nigh onto fifty years? But some of these know-alls come along and said it wasn't the right kind; it oughter blink.
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