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Partly on this account, and partly because of your ah intimate knowledge of the Fwench language, I have selected you for the performance of a service in which all the qualities I have mentioned are er conspicuously necessawy.
Here," handing me a packet, "is a sufficient amount of Fwench money to cawwy you handsomely thwough the business if no hitch occurs; if it does, you must exercise your ingenuity to get yourself out of the difficulty. Now go away and get weady, and ah er I heartily wish you success. Good-bye."
"Viva!" was the reply, accompanied by the wave of a navy cap. "He's Fwench," said the skipper; "one of the fellows who has suwendered to our fleet. Can any of you gentlemen speak Fwench well enough to ask him which is the Bwitish admiral's ship?"
You will understand this more clearly when I explain that the service consists in the safe conveyance of certain vewy important documents to the hands of a Corsican gentleman on shore yonder, in the face of unknown but possibly sewious difficulties from the numewous Fwench twoops occupying the island, and into whose hands the documents in question must by no means be allowed to fall.
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