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Two Years Ago, Volume II.

CHAPTER XV
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It is too dreadful.
I have seen it in India--among my own men--among the natives.

Good heavens, I never shall forget--and to meet the fiend again here, of all places in the world! I fancied it so clean and healthy, swept by fresh sea-breezes." "And by nothing else.

A half-hour's walk round would convince you, sir; I only wish that you could persuade his lordship to accompany you." "Scoutbush?
Of course he will,--he shall,--he must.

Good heavens! whose concern is it more than his?
You think, then, that there is a chance of staving it off--by cleansing, I mean ?" "If we have heavy rains during the next week or two, yes.

If this drought last, better leave ill alone; we shall only provoke the devil by stirring him up." "You speak confidently," said the Major, gradually regaining his own self-possession, as he saw Tom so self-possessed.


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