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Excerpt from Ad Orientem
I was staying at, should feel surprised that any one at that supreme moment could even give thought to, much less plan, a journey to the far East, where no' intelligence of the great events of the future might reach him. Feeling tolerably free, however, of that craving for the latest telegraphic news from the seat of war, and tired of the monotonous life I was lead ing, although graciously admitted to the society of those polished French, a few Russian notables, as far as their high - sounding titles went, and two or three agreeable English families, I had decided upon spending the winter in those Eastern countries whose shores are washed by the Indian and the Pacific Ocean.
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