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The Ship of Stars

CHAPTER XXI
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I shall never understand men and how they fight.

I supposed that the war lay between him and my grandfather.

But it seems he was fighting an idea all the while; for here is my grandfather beaten and dead and gone; and still the Vicar will give no quarter.

If you had not assured me that your demy-ship means eighty pounds a year, I could believe that men fight for shadows only.

Your mother and grandmother are both well.


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