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the French fleet that you and Franklin assured me would spring to our defense? Without their aid and without it soon, I fear we are doomed. But she kept talking in that low, imperative voice. In late August of 1886 such a hurricane collected its force just south of Norfolk, but instead of devastatin e asked, “You think on’y you’s been whipped?” As his hands lingered there, she resumed her litany: “We gonna go north.

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