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The Zeppelin’s Passenger

CHAPTER XVII
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The only question is whether it is worth while.
Germans are supposed to be sentimentalists, you know.

I rather doubt it.
There is nothing would set the joybells of Berlin clanging so much as the news of a German invasion of Great Britain.

On the other hand, there is a great party in Germany, and a very far-seeing one, which is continually reminding the Government that, without Great Britain as a market, Germany would never recover from the financial strain of the war." "This is all too impersonal," Philippa objected.

"Do you, in your heart, believe that the time might come when in the night we should hear the guns booming in Dreymarsh Bay, and see your grey-clad soldiers forming up on the beach and scaling our cliffs ?" "That will not be yet," he pronounced.

"It has been thought of.


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