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Absently he fingered the neat slice across the shoulder of his coat. Good shooting, at a moving target only half seen through the trees. He could have admired it more had he not been the target.
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Matrim Cauthon

 

Robert Jordan

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In letters of lead on the spring hillside.
But the boy lying dead under the olive trees
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