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Updated: June 9, 2025
In Tartarin's mouth, the title of Merchant Prince thundered out as something stunning! The house of Garcio-Camus had the further advantage of sometimes being favoured with a call from the Tartars. Then the doors would be slammed shut, all the clerks flew to arms, up ran the consular flag, and zizz! phit! bang! out of the windows upon the Tartars.
Then think of men, leaving the trenches at dusk, going back about a mile and a half, and bringing sundry large and heavy boxes up to the trenches, pausing now and again for a rest, and ignoring the intermittent crackling of rifle fire in the darkness, and the sharp "phit" of bullets hitting the mud all around. Think of that as your portion each night and every night.
"Well, we shall keep them back so as to allow plenty of room for the evolutions." "Yes; but, let alone the country-people, every man with his kris, there are the military followers of those two Rajahs in full array." "Military! Phit! My dear Dallas!" "Ah, you laugh, sir. Why, roughly speaking, each of those two chiefs has got a following of about five hundred men say a thousand."
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