“1832,” Combeferre answered, still puzzled by the response, and curious if Kaine would offer further explanation. True, plenty of people from his own time would have called America - especially its further reaches - the opposite of Europe, but not, he suspected, for the reasons this fellow means. “As I said, no Texas yet. Barely a United States. ‘More freedom, more ease, and less misery,’ Jefferson said of it."
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Date: 2014-01-28 03:23 am (UTC)