Personally, I have been very fortunate and almost inevitably, I have reveived courtesy from my own countrymen as well as from the English. Even my goalers and the policemen, from place to place have been kind to me and much of the bitterness of conflict and the sting of goal-life has been bittereness of conflict and the sting has been toned downk because of this human touch. It was not surprising that my own countrymen should treat me so for I had gained a meaure of notoriety and popularity among them. Even for Englishmen. I was an individual and not merely one of the mass and I imagine the fact that I had received my education in England, brought me nearer to them.
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