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Tom Tufton’s Travels

CHAPTER IX
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You will not find me hold back when the moment comes." Lord Claud took his hand and held it in both of his.
"It must be you, Tom; and yet I would rather it were myself.

But I have that intrusted to me which I must speak in the Duke's ear.

The despatches are as little compared with what I have had from Marlborough's own lips--what may not be trusted upon paper.
Moreover, I could find my way through the countries, where you would be lost for lack of words to ask your way.

If one of us has to be delivered over to death, it must be you." "It must.

I see it well." "Yet we may both succeed in getting through, or we may both leave our bones lying amid the eternal snows.


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