The Last American by John Ames Mitchell
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their garments as directed, with no regard for the size or figure of
the individual, and copied to a stitch the fashions of Europeans. Khan-li. But the close-fitting apparel of the European must have been sadly uncomfortable in the heat of a Mehrikan summer. Nofuhl So probably it was. Stiff boxes of varying patterns adorned the heads of men. Curious jackets with tight sleeves compressed the body. The feet throbbed and burned in close-fitting casings of un-yielding leather, and linen made stiff by artificial means was drawn tightly about the neck. Khan-li Allah! What idiots! Nofuhl Even so are they considered. Khan-Ii. To what quality of their minds do you attribute such love of needless suffering? Nofnhl. |
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