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Barnaby Rudge

CHAPTER 31
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The serjeant was describing a military life.

It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love-making.

A battle was the finest thing in the world--when your side won it--and Englishmen always did that.

'Supposing you should be killed, sir ?' said a timid voice in one corner.

'Well, sir, supposing you should be,' said the serjeant, 'what then?
Your country loves you, sir; his Majesty King George the Third loves you; your memory is honoured, revered, respected; everybody's fond of you, and grateful to you; your name's wrote down at full length in a book in the War Office.


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