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The Port of Missing Men by Meredith Nicholson
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"I was bidding farewell to your foreign suitors, Shirley, and
congratulating myself that as soon as _père et mère_ get their sea legs
they will resume charge of you, and let me look up two or three very
presentable specimens of your sex I saw come on board. Your affairs
have annoyed me greatly and I shall be glad to be free of the
responsibility."

"Thank you, Captain."

"And if there are any titled blackguards on board--"

"You will do dreadfully wicked things to them, won't you, little
brother?"

"Humph! Thank God, I'm an American!"

"That's a worthy sentiment, Richard."

"I'd like to give out, as our newspapers say, a signed statement throwing
a challenge to all Europe. I wish we'd get into a real war once so we
could knock the conceit out of one of their so-called first-class powers.
I'd like to lead a regiment right through the most sacred precincts of
London; or take an early morning gallop through Berlin to wake up the
Dutch. All this talk about hands across the sea and such rot makes me
sick. The English are the most benighted and the most conceited and
condescending race on earth; the Germans and Austrians are stale
beer-vats, and the Italians and French are mere decadents and don't
count."

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