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One of Our Conquerors

CHAPTER XXIII
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Intuitive knowledge, assisted by the Rev.Stuart Rem and the Rev.Abram Posterley, enabled them to pronounce upon men and things; not without effect; their country owned it; the foreigner beheld it.

Nor were they corrupted by the servility of the surrounding ear.
They were good women, striving to be humbly good.

They might, for all the little errors they nightly unrolled to then perceptions, have stood before the world for a study in the white of our humanity.

And this may be but a washed wall, it is true: revolutionary sceptics are measuring the depths of it.

But the hue refreshes, the world admires; and we know it an object of aim to the bettermost of the wealthy.


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