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...h. The reason for poor Florence’s broken years was a storm at sea upon our first crossing to Europe, and the immediate reasons for our imprisonment in... ...l crossing might well kill the poor thing. 4 The Good Soldier When we all first met, Captain Ashburnham, home on sick leave from an India to which he... ...eets. These title deeds are of wampum, the grant of an Indian chief to the first Dowell, who left Farnham in Surrey in company with William Penn. Flor... ...days when you might travel the world over without finding any- thing but a Republican. Anyhow, they went round the world. I think an anecdote is about... ...won’t matter whether they are Germans, Austrians, French, Spanish, or even Brazilians— they will be the Germans or Brazilians who take a cold bath eve... ...ow im- becile, in view of that engrossment, appear the ways of princes, of republics, of municipalities. A rough bit of road beneath the motor tyres, ... ...d discovered it was only that he was a Democrat. My own people were mostly Republicans. It seemed to make it worse and more darkly mysteri- ous to the...

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...ing which gave promise of one of those bright days when Parisians, for the first time in the year, behold dry pave- ments underfoot and a cloudless sk... ...poleon was to set out upon the disastrous campaign in which he was to lose first Bessieres, and then Duroc; he was to win the memorable battles of Lut... ... young officer placed the father and daughter in front of the crowd in the first space to the right, and recommended them by a sign to the two veteran... ... but a few days before Spain recog- nized the independence of the American Republics, he wrote that he was coming home. 141 Balzac So, one fine morni... ...you are the only man who really knows the passages of the Antilles and the Brazilian coast. Will you—” The captain cut him short with a scornful excla...