The colonel, by the author of 'The perils of fashion'.

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44 ページ - And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down ; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves : they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them...
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