““You,” said Purity, “have been long enough out of England to pick up some American brag.”
“But surrounded by Americans as I am,” said Cooper, “my brag is like a farthing in a sack of guineas.””

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 5.

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