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The Double Traitor

CHAPTER IV
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Germany will make no war upon any one, save commercially.

She will never again invade France except under the bitterest provocation, and if ever she should be driven to defend herself, it will assuredly not be at the expense of her broken pledges.
The forts of Belgium might just as well be converted into apple-orchards.
They stand there to-day as the proof of a certain lack of faith in Germany on the part of Belgium, ministered to by that King of the Jingoes, as you would say in English, Bernhardi.

How often it is that a nation suffers most from her own patriots!" "Herr Selingman has expressed the situation admirably," Mr.Meyer declared approvingly.
"Very interesting, I'm sure," Norgate murmured.

"There is one thing about you foreigners," he added, with an envious sigh.

"The way you all speak the languages of other countries is wonderful.


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