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One of Our Conquerors

CHAPTER XXX
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Only Victor could have overcome them! I had to think it better for my girl, that she was absent.

We are in such a whirl up there! So I work round again to "how long ?" and the picture of myself counting the breaths of a dying woman.

The other day I was told I was envied!' 'Battle, battle, battle; for all of us, in every position!' said Dartrey sharply, to clip a softness: 'except when one's attending on an invalid uncle.

Then it's peace; rather like extinction.

And I can't be crying for the end either.


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