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Itbook71 was by this communication that the English tongue became vernacular to young Ferdinand who without such opportunity would have been a stranger to the language of his forefathers in spite of all his mothers loquacity and elocution though it must be owned for the credit of her maternal care that she let slip no occasion of making it familiar to his ear and conception for even at those intervals in which she could find no person to carry on the altercation she used to hold forth in earnest soliloquies upon the subject of her own situation giving vent to many opprobrious invectives against her husbands country between which and Old England she drew many odious comparisons and prayed without ceasing that Europe might speedily be involved in a general war so as that she might have some chance of reenjoying the pleasures and emoluments of a Flanders campaign.... read all
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