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I was nettled, for I felt there was some justice in this sarcasm, and this, too, at the very moment I felt it was only half-merited: and not at all, perhaps, from an Englishman.

From Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by Cooper, James Fenimore