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He had penetration enough to suspect their desire and alarmed by that suspicion listenedbook25 attentively to theirbook33 discourse which from a slender knowledge in the French tongue he had the good fortune partly to understand. This was actually the circumstance that turned the scale of battle. Nothing could have more seasonably happened to confirm the good opinion which the colonel entertained of Ferdinands principles. This was no other than an unhappy officer of hussars who after having the good fortune to take a Turkish standard was desperately wounded in the thigh and obliged to quit his horse finding himself in such a helpless condition he had wrapped his acquisition round his body that whatever might happen he and his glory should not be parted and thus shrouded among the dying and the dead he had observed the progress of our heroine who stalked about the field like another Atropos finishing wherever she came the work of death.... read all
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