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內容簡介 Book Excerpt: y, a good deal about theadvantages and superiority of England, to which in the course of sixmonths he became gloomily loyal. It was necessary, in fact, for himto have something with which to compare the United States unfavorably.The effect he produced on Tembarom was that of causing him, when heentered the public school round the corner, to conceal withdetermination verging on duplicity the humiliating fact that if hehad not been born in Brooklyn he might have been born in England.England was not popular among the boys in the school. History hadrepresented the country to them in all its tyrannical rapacity andbloodthirsty oppression of the humble free-born. The manly andadmirable attitude was to say, "Give me liberty or give me death"--and there was the Fourth of July.Though Tembarom and his mother had been poor enough while his fatherlived, when he died the returns from his irregular odd jobs no longercame in to supplement his wife's sewing, and add an occasional day ortwo ofRead More