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West Wind Drift

CHAPTER VIII
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Fainted like a stupid, silly young girl.

But while he was standing before zat---that mob of terrorists he was the strongest man in Russia.

Nevertheless, he was afraid of them.
You have therefore the curious spectacle to perceive, Miss Clinton, of one man being afraid of hundreds, and of hundreds of men at the same time being afraid of one.

Man, he is a queer animal, eh ?" It was not long before the doubts and fears of all on board the Doraine gave way to a strange, unnatural state of exhilaration.

It represented joy without happiness, relief without security, exultation without conviction,--for, after all, there still remained unanswered the question that robbed every sensation of its thrill.


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