Page:Letters from the Battle-fields of Paraguay (1870).djvu/442

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412 RETURN TO BUENOS AIRES.

purely complimentary terms of expression are accepted with the utmost gravity ; any slip of the memory or of the pen, however trivial, is dwelt upon at a suspicious length ; and lastly, the confessions of men who were probably tortured to confess are treated as the confidential communications of political criminals. Good-bye.