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Greenmantle

CHAPTER ONE
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They were a lot of fire-eating young lunatics.

If I had sent one of them he'd have gone on his knees to Providence and asked for trouble.' Sir Walter was still grinning.
'I'm not questioning your caution.

You have the rudiments of it, or our friends of the Black Stone would have gathered you in at our last merry meeting.

I would question it as little as your courage.

What exercises my mind is whether it is best employed in the trenches.' 'Is the War Office dissatisfied with me ?' I asked sharply.
'They are profoundly satisfied.


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