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The Two Admirals

CHAPTER XIV
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You are a _subject_ of _England_." "No, Sir Gervaise; your pardon.

I am the subject of George II., but in no manner a subject of _England_.

I am, in one sense, perhaps, a subject of the British empire; but I am not the less a Virginian, and an American.

Not a shilling of any man's money will I ever touch, who expresses his contempt for either." "You forget yourself, young man, and overlook the future.

The hundred or two of prize-money, bought at the expense of your blood, in the late affair at Groix, will not last for ever." "It is gone, already, sir, every shilling of it having been sent to the widow of the boatswain who was killed at my side.


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