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Manasseh

CHAPTER XXII
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Did you see any sign of the enemy ?" "We have foes enough there still.

There is Toroczko." Diurbanu's face, as he said this, was suddenly illumined by a blinding flash of lightning.
"And Torda!" cried a voice from the benches.
"No, we have nothing against Torda," declared Diurbanu, almost angrily.
"But what have we against Toroczko ?" asked another voice.

"The men of Toroczko have never done us any harm.

So far we have received their iron only in the form of ploughs and shovels, scythes and wheel-tires." "Their sons are serving under Bem," was the rejoinder, "and it is from them that we have received their iron in other shapes.

Yet that is not the main reason.


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