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Title: Olga Romanoff
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Griffith, George Chetwynd
Subjects: Utopias
Publisher: London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co.
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
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ny threatened point, and, infact, before the sun was two degrees above the horizon ofParis, eight squadrons of Federation warships, including thetwo under the command of Alan and Alexis, were flying atfull speed from all four points of the compass towards the citywhich for over half a century had been the acknowledgedcapital of the Continent. Little more than an hour sufficed for the Avenger and theIsma to pass over the six hundred miles which separatedGorlitz from Paris. Flying at their utmost speed they lefttheir squadrons to follow the two admirals, knowing that everycaptain could be implicitly trusted to do the work allotted tohis ship without further orders. The object of Alan and Alexis was to get first to the sceneof action, and to avail themselves of the superior soaringpowers of their two vessels to deliver an assault upon theMoslems which they could not reply to. A fearful scene unfolded itself before them as they sweptup out of the eastward over Paris. The vast and splendid
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War at its Worst 287 city was surrounded by a huge circle formed of at leasttwo hundred Moslem warships floating at au elevation ofsome three miles, and pouring a tempest of projectiles fromhundreds of guns indiscriminately into the area crowdedwith stately buildings and nearly ten millions of in-habitants. Nearly three miles above the centre of the city floated asolitary scout-ship ready to signal warning of the approach ofan enemy. Fires were already raging in hundreds of placesall over the city. The streets were swarming with terrifiedthrongs of citizens who had rushed out to escape the flamesand the falling buildings, only to meet the hundreds of shellsthat were constantly bursting among them, rending theirbodies to fragments by scores at a time. Such was the beginning of Khalid the Magnificents revengefor the disaster of the Mediterranean—a vengence which provedthat, in his breast at least, the savage spirit of the ancientwarfare was still untamed. The Avenger and the Isvia gai

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