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The Moonstone

PROLOGUE
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It made no serious impression on any of us except my cousin--whose love of the marvellous induced him to believe it.

On the night before the assault on Seringapatam, he was absurdly angry with me, and with others, for treating the whole thing as a fable.

A foolish wrangle followed; and Herncastle's unlucky temper got the better of him.

He declared, in his boastful way, that we should see the Diamond on his finger, if the English army took Seringapatam.

The sally was saluted by a roar of laughter, and there, as we all thought that night, the thing ended.
Let me now take you on to the day of the assault.


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