Chapter

1 1 | secret missions since I was a mere lad, it also happened very
2 4 |    there was a light touch, a mere brushing of the dust. It
3 8 |        I felt assured, out of mere unkindness. Perhaps then
4 8 |   exciting bit of news on the mere ground of its unreliability.~
5 10|   announced. But all this was mere idle talk. Telegrams reached
6 15|      place. What was as yet a mere hypothesis, would become
7 17|       flames sank down into a mere mass of burnt-out ashes;