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Excerpt from The Red Cockade: A Novel
Ah! And that plantation? It hides the Village, I suppose, from the house Yes.
He laughed. Yes, he said. I notice that that is the way of all who prate of the people, and freedom, and fraternity. They love the people; but they love them at a distance, on the farther Side of a park or a high yew hedge. Now, at St. Alais I like to have my folks under my eye, and then, if they do not behave.
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