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has a mean job anyway, is given over to poking here and there looking for trouble. His business in life is to look sourly at all hours and to find fault. He will tell you ever and anon to [[underline]] take [[/underline]] your hands out of your pockets, will you? - while he is standing loosely before you with his own hands snuggled among his spare change. He is to be pitied and not sneered at for he is better, at least, than a great many of his brethren who appear at first glance to be "awful goops". All in all, though, the Imperial men are a decent crowd and for all their impression of ^[[self-assumed]] superiority they are quite human.

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