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... Thank you . By the way , I suppose that you no objection to my mentioning at the meeting this evening that your sons ... Thanks very much . I only wish that you could go with us . Good - bye . Tell the boys that their names are down ...
... Thank you . By the way , I suppose that you no objection to my mentioning at the meeting this evening that your sons ... Thanks very much . I only wish that you could go with us . Good - bye . Tell the boys that their names are down ...
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... Thank you , Tim , " Ralph said , heartily . had better let the surgeon look at your head ; you have got some nasty cuts . " " Sure , and my head's all right , your honour . It isn't a tap from a Frenchman that would break the skull of ...
... Thank you , Tim , " Ralph said , heartily . had better let the surgeon look at your head ; you have got some nasty cuts . " " Sure , and my head's all right , your honour . It isn't a tap from a Frenchman that would break the skull of ...
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... thanks . It was now getting dark , and , accompanied by their cousins , the Barclays were let out with Tim Doyle from a back entrance to the mairie , and made their way un- noticed through the town , and arrived half an hour E 2.
... thanks . It was now getting dark , and , accompanied by their cousins , the Barclays were let out with Tim Doyle from a back entrance to the mairie , and made their way un- noticed through the town , and arrived half an hour E 2.
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... thank you for saving my life , which them bastes had made up their minds they were going to have . I ain't good at talking , your honours , but if it's the last drop of my blood that would be of any use to you , you'd be heartily wel ...
... thank you for saving my life , which them bastes had made up their minds they were going to have . I ain't good at talking , your honours , but if it's the last drop of my blood that would be of any use to you , you'd be heartily wel ...
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... thank you ; but it's many a time I shall look back upon my big supper and big bed . Not that I should like it altogether entirely : I should get so fat and so lazy that I shouldn't know my own shadow . " The First Day's March . 67 And ...
... thank you ; but it's many a time I shall look back upon my big supper and big bed . Not that I should like it altogether entirely : I should get so fat and so lazy that I shouldn't know my own shadow . " The First Day's March . 67 And ...
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arms army arrived balloon Besançon Blamont boys Cambriels Captain Barclay cavalry Christine cloth Colonel Tempé coloured command corps despatches distance Doyle duty Edition enemy English Epinal Fcap fell fight fire forest France French G. A. HENTY Gambetta German gilt edges hair half hand HARRISON WEIR head heard honour horses hour hundred yards Illustrations lads laughed legion of honour Lieutenant looked Madame Duburg Major Tempé Maupas Melun miles Milly minutes Mobiles Molsheim Montargis morning Mutzig night o'clock officers once Orleans Paris passed peasant plain Post 8vo prisoners Prussians quarter Ralph and Percy Ribouville rifles road round Salbris Saverne schoolmaster sentries sergeant shot shouted side soldiers staff surgeon Teclier tell thing Tim's tireurs to-morrow told town Trochu troops turned Uhlans village Vosges walked Wasselonne wood wounded young Barclays Zouaves
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