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25 between chief and retainer for which the island had been famed in times of old revived with twofold intensity.

The island prospered; not more, it is true, than other countries on the adjoining mainland had been prospering for years, but then it had been far behind them, and now, like them, it prospered; and Heaven smiled on those who had done their duty by tens of thousands of struggling poor, and most especially on that, that sovereign who had led them by example to do their duty!

Our Island Dream is told: God grant it may come true!