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One of Our Conquerors

CHAPTER IX
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'What are you two concocting! I say, do keep the peace, please.

An excellent good fellow; better up in politics than any man I know; understands music; means well, you can see.

You two hate a man at all serious.

And he doesn't bore with his knowledge.

A scholar too.' 'If he'll bring us the atmosphere of the groves of Academe, he may swing his ferule pickled in himself, and welcome,' said Fenellan.
'Yes!' Victor nodded at a recognized antagonism in Fenellan; 'but Colney's always lifting the Germans high above us.' 'It's to exercise his muscles.' Victor headed to the other apartments, thinking that the Rev.Septimus and young Sowerby, Old England herself, were spared by the diversion of these light skirmishing shots from their accustomed victims to the 'masculine people of our time.


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