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He was willing to lose his kingdom for the saving of their souls." "And yet he was a bad king?" Margaret said. "He had none of the qualities of a ruler or an empire-builder," Freddy said. "Damn empire-building!" Mike said. "If people would only stick to their own natural territory and not go straying into other peoples!" "I wonder what you'd do if Germany strayed into ours?
He beheld the Congo open to the world; in the forests where he had hunted elephants he foresaw great "factories," mining camps, railroads, feeding gold and copper ore to the trunk line, from the Cape to Cairo. His ideas were the ideas of an empire-builder.
"Then what is it you do want?" "I want half the Deferred Shares in the hands of Lord ." He named a Canadian statesman and empire-builder whose integrity was beyond all suspicion. "I want him to hold them as trustee for the ordinary shareholders. He will consent if I ask him." "No doubt he will!" commented Larssen ironically. He drew up his chair closer to the other man.
It pleases me to think that it is toward this little, moss-grown temple that the bronze statue of the great empire-builder, which stands on the Esplanade in Singapore, is peering with wistful eyes, for on its base he carved these lines: "Oh thou whom ne'er my constant heart One moment hath forgot, Tho' fate severe hath bid us part Yet still forget me not."
"We never know what we may come to," said Pollyooly with a happy remembrance of the pious wisdom of her Aunt Hannah. "But Millie isn't going into the workhouse anyhow. I'm not going to let her. But she ought to go to a home and be trained to marry an empire-builder. She's that kind of orphan: Mr. Ruf a gentleman says that she is.
During the morning Millicent wept several times at the thought of leaving the Lump; and her final farewell was tearful indeed. But Pollyooly believed that her sadness would not last long: they had decided that the empire-builder would have fair hair and a large and flowing moustache. After Millicent's departure their life settled down into its usual even tenour.
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