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Lady Mary Wortley Montague

CHAPTER XIII
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He really knows most of the modern languages, and if I could believe him, can read Arabic, and has read the Bible in Hebrew.

He said it was impossible for him to avoid going back to Paris; but he promised me to lie but one night there, and go to a town six posts from thence on the Flanders road, where he would wait your orders, and go by the name of Mons.

du Durand, a Dutch officer; under which name I saw him.

These are the most material passages, and my eyes are so much tired I can write no more at this time.

I gave him 240 livres for his journey." No amount of admonition had any effect upon Edward.


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