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"I don't know what to say, my dear." - In the Reign of Terror [Books (First Lines)] It was late in the afternoon in the spring of the year 1630; the hilltops of the south of Scotland were covered with masses of cloud, and a fierce wind swept the driving rain before it with such force that it was not easy to make way against it. - The Lion of the North [Books (First Lines)] A mounted officer, followed by two orderlies, was proceeding at a brisk trot from Paris to St. Denis, in October, 1639, when he came upon a large party of boys, who, armed with sticks, were advancing in something like military order against a wall on the top of a low hill. - Won by the Sword (ch. I) [Books (First Lines)]
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