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Springhaven

CHAPTER XI
11/18

But if it once begins again, God alone knows where France will be before you and I are in our graves.

They have drained all our patience, and our pockets very nearly; but they have scarcely put a tap into our energy and endurance.

But what are they?
A gang of slaves, rammed into the cannon by a Despot." "They seem to like it, and the question is for them.

But the struggle will be desperate, mountains of carnage, oceans of blood, universal mourning, lamentation, and woe.

And I have had enough trouble with my tithes already." "Tithes are dependent on the will of the Almighty," said the Admiral, who paid more than he altogether liked; "but a war goes by reason and good management.


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