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But
that our cause, our very life and future hopes and past pride, should
have been thrown into the balance with men like that to buttress it -
men with valor and strength but without pity or honor.

Is it any wonder that Heaven saw fit to let us lose?"
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'No'me,' Quentin said.
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'But that it should have been our father, mine and Ellen's father of all
of them that he knew, out of all the ones who used to go out there and
drink and gamble with him and watch him fight those wild Negroes, whose
daughters he might even have won at cards.

Thank you!