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The Four Feathers

CHAPTER IX
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Durrance was near to Benedick's mood.
"One whom I value"; "I shall miss you"; there might be a double meaning in the phrases.

When she said that she needed to be assured that she had sure friends, did she not mean that she needed their companionship?
But the argument, had he been acute enough to see it, proved how deep he was sunk in error.

For what this girl spoke, she habitually meant, and she habitually meant no more.

Moreover, upon this occasion she had particularly weighed her words.
"No doubt," she said, "_a_ soldier can.

But can this soldier find work so suitable?
Listen, please, till I have done.


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