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The Four Feathers

CHAPTER IX
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I am much distressed by it.

I lie awake with it at night.

And then you come whom I greatly value, and you say quietly, 'Will you please spoil my career too ?'" And she struck one hand sharply into the other and cried, "But that I will not do." And again he answered:-- "There is no need that you should.

Wadi Halfa is not the only place where a soldier can find work to his hand." His voice had taken a new hopefulness.

For he had listened intently to the words which she had spoken, and he had construed them by the dictionary of his desires.


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