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“I really must commend you on your English, my dear,” England said. He had stopped by on the way to somewhere else for a little of what he called “at least moderately civilized company”.
“Thank you, sir,” Hawai’i said, as politely as she knew how. She wondered when he last was forced to speak someone else’s tongue in order to be taken seriously. The normans, she supposed, but that had been an invasion, one people conquering another, not a matter of politics that spanned the globe. The world was such a big place, and Hawai’i was so small in the middle of it, but still she did what she could to at least be called “moderately civilized company”.