Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Said I: ‘How do you manage with politics?’
Said Hammond, smiling: ‘I am glad that it is of me that you ask the question: I do believe that anybody else would make you explain yourself, or try to do so, till you were sickened of asking questions. Indeed, I believe I am the only man in England who would know what you mean; and since I know, I will answer your question briefly by saying that we are very well off as to politics, – because we have none. If ever you make a book out of this conversation, put this in a chapter by itself, after the model of old Horrebow's Snakes in Iceland.’
‘I will,’ said I.
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