The gentleman with the moustache seemed much amused, and smilingly asked her whether her nephew was at all

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ambitious? I saw that he (the gentleman with the moustache) was jesting, and I would have given anything to have been released from the unpleasant predicament I was in. But what was more annoyance when Mrs. H. proceeded to say to this youth, whose face was radiant with humour, that it was the 'ight of her nephew's

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ambition to serve his country in the

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our of need; and then she proceeded to ask her fellow-traveller his opinion, of the

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upshot of the war—remarking that she 'oped it would soon be

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