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Burlesques

CHAPTER II
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We were not, it appears, correct in stating that a corporal's guard had been sufficient to seize upon the marauder, when the first fire would have served to conclude his miserable life.

But, like a hideous disease, the contagion has spread; the remedy must be dreadful.

Woe to those on whom it will fall! "His Royal Highness the Prince of Joinville, Admiral of France, has hastened, as we before stated, to the disturbed districts, and takes with him his Cavalerie de la Marine.

It is hard to think that the blades of those chivalrous heroes must be buried in the bosoms of Frenchmen: but so be it: it is those monsters who have asked for blood, not we.

It is those ruffians who have begun the quarrel, not we.


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