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Murtagh's Tale.
"Well, Shorsha, about a year and a half after you left us -- and a sorrowful hour for us it was when ye left us, losing, as we did, your funny stories of your snake -- and the battles of your military -- they sent me to Paris and Salamanca, in order to make a saggart of me."