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The Devil’s Paw

CHAPTER XX
10/27

They died happily, believing that those who had spoken for England would keep their word.

You're very soft-hearted in that article, sir, about the living.

Did you think, when you sat down to write it, about the dead ?--about that wilderness of white crosses out in France?
You're proposing in cold blood to let those devils stay on their own dunghill." "It is a very large question, Robert," Julian reminded him.

"The war is fast reaching a period of mutual exhaustion." The man threw all restraint to the winds.
"Claptrap!" was his angry reply.

"You wealthy people want your fleshpots again.


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