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Les ombres empourprées de soir s’étendaient sur la campagne.
Le soleil s’était couché derrière les lointaines hauteurs de Quantock et de Brendon quand la colonne d’infanterie, que formaient nos rudes paysans, traversa de son pas lourd Curry Revel, Wrantage et Henlade.
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