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One of Our Conquerors

CHAPTER XXI
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Mr.Carling may have helped; he had it from Fenellan; and he was among the principal groups, claiming or making acquaintances, as a lawyer should do.

The Concert was complimentarily a topic: Durandarte divine!--did not everybody think so?
Everybody did, in default of a term for overtopping it.

Our language is poor at hyperbole; our voices are stronger.

Gestures and heaven-sent eyeballs invoke to display the ineffable.

Where was Durandarte now?
Gone; already gone; off with the Luciani for evening engagements; he came simply to oblige his dear friend Mr.Radnor.Cheque fifty guineas: hardly more on both sides than an exchange of smiles.


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