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White Lies

CHAPTER XXI
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"Not on the same thing.

I blew hot upon timorous counsels; I blow cold on rash ones.

General, last night Lieutenant Fleming and I were under that bastion; and all round it." "Ah! my prudent colonel, I thought we should not talk long without your coming out in your true light.

If ever a man secretly enjoyed risking his life, it is you." "No, general," said Dujardin looking gloomily down; "I enjoy neither that nor anything else.

Live or die, it is all one to me; but to the lives of my soldiers I am not indifferent, and never will be while I live.


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