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“I am twenty-eight but look younger,” he remarked to Mr. Meek. “Perhaps that is because I am twenty-seven. My mother is not English, she is Scottish. My father is not a Hindoo.”  

“I warned you against reading the newspapers.”  

“But he is not a Hindoo.” 

“It’s near enough for the Gazette.”  

“But Mr. Meek, what if I said you were a Welshman?”  

“I would not hold you inaccurate, as my mother had Welsh blood.”  

“Or an Irishman?”  

Mr. Meek smiled back at him, unoffended, perhaps even looking a little Irish.  

“Or a Frenchman?”  

“Now there, sir, you go too far. There you provoke me.”

Julian Barnes, "Arthur and George"