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...light shone dim. Its harbor was like a grotesquely huge rice paddy, so many were the masts sticking up from its brown water. The British bank vaults were full, not of documents and specie, but of prisoners of war. Japanese troops dismantled barbed-wire, emptied sandbags, tidied up collapsed walls...
...little later, he got the full revelation. On the left "great slabs of light among the showers" shone like the panes of a cathedral while he moved "gently forward, swaying to right and left like a loaded hay-wain," towards Arras, which stood at the root of a tree of flame. He flew over a plain stiff with guns, within range of every caliber, too low to bail out; at 2,000 feet "you drain the cannonade of a whole army." Nursing, from a memory of childhood, "the sense of sovereign protection," he was all but persuaded that each...
...suddenly blue and the sun shone...
...past feudal nobles to all the frontiers of his realm. The first church of St. Germain was built in the meadows by Childebert I in the 6th Century, when Paris was a Roman island in the river. In the Palais Royal the great Cardinal Richelieu died and Louis XIV shone like the sun. Across the river Margaret of Burgundy met the lovers whom she was said to have silenced by drowning...
Ruiz Guiñazú wanted to be gay, and he wanted to be a statesman. He seemed to be inclined to get Argentina in accord with the other nations. He could see how the dream shone. But he was not his own master; he was only the servant of Argentina and Argentina's Acting President Ramon S. Castillo...