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There correspondents prodded him with questions about his early life until he cackled: "I have been a little bit a rogue elephant-as I have written, something of a rascal elephant...
...ideas are precisely, epigrammatically ordered. There was not a major problem in the whole Nicaraguan question that he dodged or that I even needed to raise. In military matters I found him most assured; a bit flamboyant and boastful and with a tendency to exaggerate his successes. However, he is exceedingly astute, knows the country well, and, with luck breaking even, can remain in the field indefinitely. By keeping the mountainous country north and east at his back, he cannot be cut off by 2,500 marines or 5,000; and he can shuttle back and forth . . . across Nicaragua, enjoying...
Author Vestal finds Kit a bit tiresome. Readers will find Author Vestal tiresome for too much apologizing. Kit had courage, needs no excuses. Author Vestal also has an irritating habit of breaking into an Indian war cry, "Wagh...
...Story. Land trembled and sank, winds roared, and the waters rose. India was no more, China a forgotten dream, Southern Europe gone, Germany a desolation below the sea, England too-but for a bit of midlands which persisted as a group of islands. Some few inhabitants had not fled mistakenly North: Martin, separated by the floods from wife and children; Claire, "like a valkyrie"; and a handful of miners, laborers, vagabonds, with too few women to go 'round...
...Rogers' conclusion: "The Black Nun* might have been a mystery in those days but in this hardboiled age we are inclined to be a bit more sceptical...