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... wanted permission to do this and that ... business men who had come down from the North to make money out of the war - some of them his own rela- tives ... cotton speculators . . . people who wanted passes to go outside his lines on ...
... wanted permission to do this and that ... business men who had come down from the North to make money out of the war - some of them his own rela- tives ... cotton speculators . . . people who wanted passes to go outside his lines on ...
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... wanted Samana Bay , on the east coast of San Domingo , as a coaling station , and that he intended to send Colonel Babcock down to San Domingo to examine the harbor and sound the government of San Domingo on the question of its ...
... wanted Samana Bay , on the east coast of San Domingo , as a coaling station , and that he intended to send Colonel Babcock down to San Domingo to examine the harbor and sound the government of San Domingo on the question of its ...
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... wanted to play a star part in the financial world , yet he had absolutely no capacity for commercial or financial operations . But he thought he had — and his delusion was not as strange as it seems . It is common among men who have had ...
... wanted to play a star part in the financial world , yet he had absolutely no capacity for commercial or financial operations . But he thought he had — and his delusion was not as strange as it seems . It is common among men who have had ...
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CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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