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your enlarged mind, on echoing a popular prejudice? We
are a prosperous community, Mr. Jarndyce, a very prosper-
ous community. We are a great country, Mr. Jarndyce, we
are a very great country. This is a great system, Mr. Jarn-
dyce, and would you wish a great country to have a little
system? Now, really, really!’
He said this at the stair-head, gently moving his right
hand as if it were a silver trowel with which to spread the
cement of his words on the structure of the system and con-
solidate it for a thousand ages.
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