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The Virginians

CHAPTER IX
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You, and gentlemen of your class, to your books, and welcome.
We don't forbid you; we encourage you.

We, to fight the enemy and govern the country.

Hey, gentlemen?
Lord! what roads you have in this colony, and how this confounded coach plunges! Who have we here, with the two negro boys in livery?
He rides a good gelding." "It is Mr.Washington," says the aide-de-camp.
"I would like him for a corporal of the Horse Grenadiers," said the General.

"He has a good figure on a horse.

He knows the country too, Mr.
Franklin." "Yes, indeed." "And is a monstrous genteel young man, considering the opportunities he has had.


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