eBooks - Literature - Classics - Gilbert Parker - Trail of the Sword
Trail of the Sword eBooks
by Gilbert Parker
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Windows 98SE+, Mac OS X+, Palm Features
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Windows 98SE+, Mac OS X+, Palm Features
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Windows 98+, Tablet PC, Pocket PC 2003 Features
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Trail of the Sword Summary
| Once, many years ago, in a kind of despair, you were impelled to say that I would "never be anything but a rascally lawyer." This, it may be, sat upon your conscience, for later you turned me gravely towards Paley and the Thirty-nine Articles; and yet I know that in your deepest soldier's heart, you really pictured me, how unavailingly, in scarlet and pipe-clay, and with sabre, like yourself in youth and manhood. |
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| By Heaven, no: I hope that they will fight while remains a chance. And be sure, sir, I should not have yielded here, but that I foresaw hopeless slaughter. Nor would I ask your favour there, but that I know you are like to have bloody barbarians with you--and we have women and children! |
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