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One of Our Conquerors

CHAPTER III
11/18

He's right: if we won't learn that we have become Continentals, we shall be marched over.

Laziness, cowardice, he says.' 'Oh, be hanged!' interrupted Fenellan.

'As much of the former as you like.

He 's right about our "individualismus" being another name for selfishness, and showing the usual deficiency in external features; it's an individualism of all of a pattern, as when a mob cuts its lucky, each fellow his own way.

Well, then, conscript them, and they'll be all of a better pattern.


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