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Ours, you see, is rather an out-of-the-way country; few of our people go to town, or indeed anywhere else; they are all tarry-at-home birds. But they'd receive you with great politeness, I'm sure if they knew you came from here, at least, added he. Sponge was silent, and took a great gulp of the dull 'Wintle, to save himself from answering.
A dear friend of mine amongst them was Major Russell, who had spent a lengthened span of years in the East an admirable type of the calm, firm, courteous Anglo-Indian who had never soured his temper and spoiled his liver with excessive "pegs," who understood and respected the natives, who had shown administrative ability, and who, like many another honest, dutiful officer, had not shaken much fruit off the pagoda-tree, or even secured the C.B. which is so often given to tarry-at-home nonentities.
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