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One of Our Conquerors

CHAPTER XIX
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And good for Fredi if he did not know, and had his objections to the knowledge! But he was like the men who escape colds by wrapping in comforters instead of trusting to the spin of the blood.
'She played poor Dartrey pranks before he buried--he, behaved well to her; and that says much for him; he has: a devil of a temper.

I 've seen the blood in his veins, mount to cracking.

But there's the man: because she was a woman, he never let it break out with her.

And, by heaven, he had cause.

She couldn't be left.


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