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The Devil’s Paw

CHAPTER IV
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All those who work for freedom are learning breadth.

If they ever find a leader, I think that this dear, smug country of yours may have to face the greatest surprise of its existence." Julian looked at her curiously.
"You have ideas, Miss Abbeway." "So unusual in a woman!" she mocked.

"Do you notice how every one is trying to avoid the subject of the war?
I give them another half-course, don't you?
I am sure they cannot keep it up." "They won't go the distance," Julian whispered.

"Listen." "The question to be considered," Lord Shervinton pronounced, "is not so much when the war will be over as what there is to stop it?
That is a point which I think we can discuss without inviting official indiscretions." "If other means fail," declared the Bishop, "Christianity will stop it.
The conscience of the world is already being stirred." "Our enemies," the Earl pronounced confidently from his place at the head of the table, "are already a broken race.

They are on the point of exhaustion.


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