Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other,
I am not sorry that it happened. I deserved your reproach: a
hundred times I have wished to tell you the whole story of my
travels and adventures among the savages, and one of the reasons
which prevented me was the fear that it would have an unfortunate
effect on our friendship. That was precious, and I desired above
everything to keep it. But I must think no more about that now. I
must think only of how I am to tell you my story. I will begin at a
time when I was twenty-three. It was early in life to be in the
thick of politics, and in trouble to the extent of having to fly my
country to save my liberty, perhaps my life. Every nation, someone
remarks, has the government it deserves, and Venezuela certainly
has the one it deserves and that suits it best. We call it a
republic, not only because it is not one, but also because a thing
must have a name; and to have a good name, or a fine name, is very
convenient-especially when you want to borrow money. If the
Venezuelans, thinly distributed over an area of half a million
square miles, mostly illiterate peasants, half-breeds, and
indigenes, were educated, intelligent men, zealous only for the
public weal, it would be possible for them to have a real republic.
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