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On slight, though decisive, preponderance of evidence, he was about to risk throwing away an advantage a seaman must appreciate, that of being to windward of his enemy, able to get at him, the strategist's position of command.
Whatever his views of the struggle in which he was engaged, they did not include either an appreciation of Southern nationalism or the strategist's conception of war. Granted that the other States were merely his allies, Vance pursued a course that might justly have aroused their suspicion, for so far as he was able he devoted the resources of the State wholly to the use of its own citizens.
Now notice the form of this sleek strategist's first remark flung out in an easy, offhand way that would have thrown any unwatchful person off his guard: "Now, Joan, the matter is very simple; just speak up and frankly and truly answer the questions which I am going to ask you, as you have sworn to do." It was a failure. Joan was not asleep. She saw the artifice. She said: "No.
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