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Ten Years Later

CHAPTER 18
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Monseigneur can't run now, no more can I; but monseigneur throws the disc as nobody else can throw it.

And when he does deal a blow, oh, that proves a misfortune!" "How so ?" "Yes, monsieur, we were obliged to renounce the cestus.

He cracked heads; he broke jaws--beat in ribs.

It was charming sport; but nobody was willing to play with him." "Then his wrist----" "Oh, monsieur, firmer than ever.

Monseigneur gets a trifle weaker in his legs,--he confesses that himself; but his strength has all taken refuge in his arms, so that----" "So that he can knock down bullocks, as he used formerly." "Monsieur, better than that--he beats in walls.


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