○  russell conwell : acres of diamonds  ○

heel, threw back his shoulders, slightly advanced the right foot, opened the organs of speech, and advanced his right foot at an angle of forty-five. as he stood in that elocutionary attitude, friends, this is just the way that speech went. some people say to me, “don’t you exaggerate?” that would be impossible. but i am here for the lesson and not for the story, and this is the way it went” “fellow-citizens"- as soon as he heard his voice his fingers began to go like that, his knees begin to shake, and then he trembled all over. he choked and swallowed and came around to the table to look at the manuscript. then he gathered himself up with clenched fists and came back” “fellow-citizens, we are-fellow-citizens, we are-we are-we are-we are-we are-we are very happy-we are very happy-we are very happy. we are very happy to welcome back to their native town these soldiers who have fought and bled- and come back again to their native town. we are especially-we are especially-we are especially. we are especially pleased to see with us to-day this young hero” (that meant me)-“this young hero who in imagination” (friends remember he said that’ if he had not said “in imagination” i would have not be egotistic enough to refer to it at all)- “this young hero who in imagination we have seen leading-we have seen leading-leading. we have seen leading his troops on the deadly breach. we have seen his shining-we have seen his shining-his shining-his shining sword-flashing. flashing in the sunlight, as he shouted to his troops, ‘come on’!”

oh dear, dear, dear! how little that good man knew about war. if he had known anything about war at all he ought to have now that any of my g. a. r. comrades here to-night will tell you is true, that it is next to a crime for an officer of infantry ever in time of danger to go ahead of his men. “i, with my shining sword flashing in the sunlight, shouting to my troops, ‘come on’!” i never did it. do you suppose i would ge

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