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Won by the Sword

CHAPTER I: A STROKE OF GOOD FORTUNE
18/34

You will have a busy time this afternoon unless I am greatly mistaken.

Leave Campbell with me.
"In the first place, it will be as well that he should not be down there, for the fun is likely to get fast and furious.

There is not a man in the regiment who knew his father but will be drinking the lad's health, and it were better that he should go tomorrow through the barracks and shake their hands, than that he should be among them there.
You can tell them that I have taken the boy off, so that they may not think that he stayed away on his own account.

We will see him fitted out.

It is a matter that touches the honour of the regiment that the son of our old comrade should make a fair show in the household of the viscount." "The general has left me a purse for that purpose, colonel." "It was a kindly thought, but let the lad start with it in his pocket.
It is our duty to see that he has everything befitting his father's son." As soon as the sergeant left, the colonel said, "Now, Campbell, do you go into the anteroom.


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