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Arms and the Woman

CHAPTER XI
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He had passed his time in the barracks and had seen many a sword skirmish.
"Well, are you going to take off these ropes ?" "No.

You would break every bone in my body." "Damn it, man!" I groaned, in exasperation.
"You will soon be out of breath." Oh! could I have but loosened those cords! "Stahlberg, who left the service a year ago, will act in the capacity of second." Stahlberg was at the head of the vineyard.

"I shall watch the affair from the window here; the scene of action will take place in the clearing beyond.

It will be an affair worth witnessing." "And where is Gretchen ?" "Where she should be; at the bar, a dutiful bar-maid." Then I heard nothing but the deep cachinations of the innkeeper.

There was something in the affair which appealed to his humor.


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