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A Perilous Secret

CHAPTER XV
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I will spell it to you, T--R--Y.

Nobody knows what he can do till he gives that word a fair trial.

It was far more impossible to scale the rock of Gibraltar; but our infantry did it; and there we are, with all Europe grinding their teeth at us.

What's a woman compared with Gibraltar?
However, as you seem to be a bit of a muff, I'll stand sentinel whilst you cut him out." The Colonel then retired into a sort of ambuscade--at least he mingled with a small clump of three Scotch firs, and stood amongst them so rectilinear he might have passed for the fourth stump.

Walter awaited the arrival of the foe, but in a spirit which has seldom conducted men to conquest and glory, for if the English infantry had deviated so far from their insular habits as to admire the Spaniards, you may be sure that Gibraltar rock at this day would be a part of the Continent, and not a detached fragment of Great Britain.


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