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One of Our Conquerors

CHAPTER XXXI
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She does not declare war upon tobacco.

She has a cultured and a beautiful voice.

We abstain from enlargeing on the charms of her person.

She has resources, which representatives of a rival creed would plot to secure.
'Skepsey, you have your quarters at the house of Miss Radnor's relatives ?' said Mr.Barmby, as they emerged from tunnelled chalk.
'Mention, that I think of calling in the course of the day.' A biscuit had been their breakfast without a name.
They parted at the station, roused by the smell of salt to bestow a more legitimate title on the day's restorative beginning.

Down the hill, along by the shops, and Skepsey, in sight of Miss Nesta's terrace, considered it still an early hour for a visitor; so, to have the sea about him, he paid pier-money, and hurried against the briny wings of a South-wester; green waves, curls of foam, flecks of silver, under low-flying grey-dark cloud-curtains shaken to a rift, where at one shot the sun had a line of Nereids nodding, laughing, sparkling to him.
Skepsey enjoyed it, at the back of thoughts military and naval.


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