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The Son of Clemenceau

CHAPTER X
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I am no soothsayer, but I can tell which must go down in the charge, and never to hold up his head again.

I am one of the flies on the common wheel who will be carried into the action and smashed, whoever is the victor.

I am unwilling to perish thus, when I can find in love of you a paradise on earth wherever you consent to dwell with me.
Listen: I am entrusted with a prodigious sum in cash by a political organization, the headquarters of which in France are here, at the old marchioness's--a veteran puller of the wires that move the European puppets.

They have practically seized my German bands, and unless I retake them at the head of a column of victorious French, I may as well say good-bye to them.

As for Terremonde, the revenue is falling every quarter.


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