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Under Wellington’s Command

CHAPTER 12: Fuentes D'Onoro
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I will carry those you have on to our house, and destroy them.

Garcia will take you to his lodging.

He starts at daybreak with his mules, and you can travel with them." "Thank you most heartily, Nita.

Here are five gold pieces, for the purchase of the ropes and clothes." "Oh, they will not cost anything like as much as that!" the girl said.
"If they don't, you must buy yourself a little keepsake, Nita, in remembrance of me; but I will send you something better worth having, by Garcia, when I reach our army, and am able to get money with which I can pay him for his labour and loss of time." "I don't want money," the girl said, drawing herself up proudly.

"I am helping you because I like you, and because you have come here to drive the French away." "I should not think of offering you money, Nita.


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