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The Trail of the Sword
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CHAPTER VII
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Eh bien, such is the way of asses." Iberville was about to speak.
"But wait," said Perrot, with a slow, tantalising smile; "it is not wise to hurry.

I have a mind to know; so while I am at New York I go to Boston.

It makes a man's mind great to travel.

I have been east to Boston; I have been west beyond the Ottawa and the Michilimackinac, out to the Mississippi.Yes.Well, what did I find in Boston?
Peste! I found that they were all like men in purgatory--sober and grave.Truly.And so dull! Never a saint-day, never a feast, never a grand council when the wine, the rum, flow so free, and you shall eat till you choke.

Nothing.
Everything is stupid; they do not smile.


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