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Then he paused, and turned to Lord Dunseverick. "Might I be so bold as to ask a question?" he said. "A dozen if you like," said Lord Dunseverick. "What about the rifles? It's only them we're wanting now. We're drilled and we're ready, but where's the rifles?" "You shall have them," said Lord Dunseverick. The clerks in Mr. McMunn's office were accustomed to behave with decorum.
The discovery that a stranger is a man of high rank often produces this kind of effect on men of strong democratic principles, principles of the kind held by clerks in all business communities, quite as firmly in Belfast as elsewhere. But it would have been a mistake to suppose that Mr. McMunn's junior clerk was a mere worshipper of title.
Lord Dunseverick turned to him. "Can you tell me," he said, "where Mr. McMunn's office is?" "Is it coal you're wanting?" asked the sailor. It is thus that questions are often met in Belfast with counter-questions. Belfast is a city of business men, and it is not the habit of business men to give away anything, even information, without getting something in return.
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