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The Forest of Swords

CHAPTER I
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He was wholly great to them." "Very well then, Monsieur Scott, I shall be flattered to be called Zhay-ro-nee-mo, until I win a name yet greater." "Where is the Father Pelletier, the priest, who you said would bar your way unless I came with you ?" "He is on the second platform where you look out over Paris before going into the lantern.

It may be that he has against me what you would call the prejudice.

I am young.

Youth must have its day, and I have done some small deeds in the quarter which perhaps do not please Father Pelletier, a strict, a very strict man.

But our country is in danger, and I am willing to forgive and forget." He spoke with so much magnanimity that John was compelled to laugh.
Geronimo laughed, too, showing splendid white teeth.


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