Sir, The circumstances of this audience are so extraordinary, the language you have now held is so extremely proper, and the feelings you have discovered so justly adapted to the occasion, that I must say that I not only receive with pleasure the assurance... Farmer George - Page 171by Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1907Full view - About this book
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