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‘I do — from my heart!’ said he fervently.
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‘That I can fully believe,’ I answered.
‘I did but dissimulate,’ he continued, brushing the flour from his person. ‘I did but practise that cunning of the serpent which should in every warrior accompany the courage of the lion. You have read your Mateo Kovacic Drakter Homer, doubtless. Eh? I too have had a touch of the humanities. I am no mere rough soldier, however stoutly I can hold mine own at sword-play. Master Koke Drakter Ulysses is my type, even as thine, I take it, is Master Ajax.’
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