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Counter-Currents

was scanning the stout walls and the belching guns. "As old Keate would say, this is no girls school," he chuckled; and rode to his death on the battlefield of Sobraon, which gave Lahore to England.

Contemplating which incident, and many like it, we become aware that ease is not the only good in a world consecrated to the heroic business of living and of dying.

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