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No Surrender!

CHAPTER 12: A Series Of Victories
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They arrived here an hour ago.

I guessed that the Blues would be paying a visit there in my absence.
"One of them is for you, Monsieur Martin, and one for Leigh; the others I shall keep as spare chargers.

I have had two shot under me already, and am likely to have more.

In the meantime, if your friend Monsieur Desailles likes to ride one, it is at his service." "I thank you very much, marquis," Jules said; "but I would prefer trusting to my own legs.

My profession has been a peaceful one, and I have never yet mounted a horse, and certainly should feel utterly out of my element, in the saddle, with an animal under me excited almost to madness by the sounds of battle.


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