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Updated: July 25, 2025
There's no mistake about that, eh?" "I'm afraid I did." His father took his hand. "She is yours," said he. "Mine? But, my dear father, she is Andrew's!" "She was; but he's such a perfect sumph, I'm thankful she's got quit of him." "What! Is it broken off?" "It will be." "An engagement?" "What's an engagement?
He talked the usual blethers about having struck a blow that night that would ring through England, just what you would have had to say if you had got in, in fact, and then he went on, the old sumph, to say that for reasons best known to himself his honourable opponent had seen fit to withhold his presence from them that night, and he begged leave to add that he considered that a man, even though he knew he was going to be beaten, ought to have the pluck to come and face the music."
Howe knew all this; he knew that to them he was only a colonial, and Nova Scotia only a detail; he knew that all his services counted for less in their eyes than did the claims of some 'sumph' whose father or uncle could influence a vote on a division. He knew that for the English statesman of the day, as for the Nova Scotian, charity began at home.
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