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He began in accents which halted not a little. By degrees his voice grew firmer. Words came from him with greater fluency.
"I am not yet forty. So when I tell you that twenty years ago I was a mere youth I am stating what is a sufficiently obvious truth. It is twenty years ago since the events of which I am going to speak transpired.