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The Devil’s Paw

CHAPTER XVI
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Nevertheless, I feel bound to remind you that you have taken upon your shoulders, considering your birth and education, one of the most perilous loads which any man could carry." "I have weighed the consequences," Julian replied, with a sudden and curious sadness in his tone.

"I know how the name of `pacifist' stinks in the nostrils.

I know how far we are committed as a nation to a peace won by force of arms.

I know how our British blood boils at the thought of leaving a foreign country with as many military advantages as Germany has acquired.

But I feel, too, that there is the other side.


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