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Westward Ho!

CHAPTER IX
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"And tell his lordship that, with his good leave, I don't stir from here till morning, if I can keep awake.

There is a stir in the fort, and I expect them out on us." "Tut, man! their hearts are broken.

We know it by their deserters." "Seeing's believing.

I never trust runaway rogues.

If they are false to their masters, they'll be false to us." "Well, go thy ways, old honesty; and Mr.Secretary shall give you a book to yourself in the 'Faerie Queene'-- 'Sir Monoculus or the Legend of Common Sense,' eh, Edmund ?" "Monoculus ?" "Ay, Single-eye, my prince of word-coiners--won't that fit ?--And give him the Cyclops head for a device.


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