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The Celt and Saxon

CHAPTER XI
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And her prince is called for.

He's promised a good reception when he drops down the river, they say.

A bit of a scrimmage on the landing-pier may be, and the first field or two, and then he sits himself, and he waits his turn.

The people change their sovereigns as rapidly as a London purse.

Two pieces of artillery and two or three hundred men and a trumpet alter the face of the land there.


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