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this will be nothing.
to ruin China by
vore nor less than
Medus
of the Chinese,
to attack Hwang Feng with Kwang Ting people. The result of this will be
that through your
instrumentality,
your native houus will be razed to the ground, and your relations and neighbours will mat with a cricel death at the point of the sword. Here
you
to consider this in the quiet of the night, do
think you could endure
you
the thought of it ? Moreover, by employing
the French place you you, situation in which
ire a
your life
io
imperilled for not one out of a
hundred survives
of those whoresh
on the point of the bayonet
off the exmion's shot.
should
Why
or ward
then
you sacrifice your life
which no
money
cau
buy for a
palty
paltry sum, thereby subjecting youruber yourselve to the reproach of thousands and myriads of tuon . Do you still consider
hereafter have the good fortine to
this a wise course? Even
should you
excape when
· you return to your native. home, your fellow countryuuou and
relations will without exception dapise
Can it be that for
you.
-present gain you an
a swall
ise gleatfeel of your
future welfare? If you can, abanden
your prèvent evil ways and returna to the right paths if you
secretly
kill some French Commander or
destroy by fire their munitions of was,
or co-operate
-operate with the chinese Officen
them from
and soldier in attacking
within and without with a view to
the writer
their being entirely swept away, will, as in duty found, overlook your
past
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