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One of Our Conquerors

CHAPTER XI
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Heroes conducted up Fame's temple-steps by ceremonious historians, who are studious, when the platform is reached, of the art of setting them beneath the flambeau of a final image, before thrusting them inside to be rivetted on their pedestals, have an excellent chance of doing the same, let but the provident narrators direct that image to paint the thing a moth-like humanity desires, in the thing it shrinks from.

Miss Priscilla Graves now fastened her meditations upon Skepsey; and it was important to him.
Tobacco withdrew the haunting shadow of the Rev.Septimus Barmby from Nesta.

She strolled beside Louise de Seilles, to breathe sweet-sweet in the dear friend's ear and tell her she loved her.

The presence of the German had, without rousing animosity, damped the young Frenchwoman, even to a revulsion when her feelings had been touched by hearing praise of her France, and wounded by the subjects of the praise.

She bore the national scar, which is barely skin-clothing of a gash that will not heal since her country was overthrown and dismembered.


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