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And yet we might even have managed without it if all the regiments had behaved as steadily as the foreign ones : the mercenaries ' principal stock - in - trade was their steadiness , for they would never have been hired in the first ...
And yet we might even have managed without it if all the regiments had behaved as steadily as the foreign ones : the mercenaries ' principal stock - in - trade was their steadiness , for they would never have been hired in the first ...
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How the oarsmen in the skiff had managed there against the current we could not begin to speculate . As I say , this turned out to be the last time we had to portage . But that transpired to be a mixed blessing .
How the oarsmen in the skiff had managed there against the current we could not begin to speculate . As I say , this turned out to be the last time we had to portage . But that transpired to be a mixed blessing .
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At one lock , where we were paddling out because Humphrey had not managed to start the motor , a woman leaned over and said : " You need a longer piece of elastic . Is it all held together by string ? Ha , ha ! " We just managed to ...
At one lock , where we were paddling out because Humphrey had not managed to start the motor , a woman leaned over and said : " You need a longer piece of elastic . Is it all held together by string ? Ha , ha ! " We just managed to ...
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