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millionaires, may find occasion to abruptly change their minds. It is 

 ' on the cards/ though they be not yet dealt, not even shuffled. It is not 

 necessary to say that no reference is made especially to Great Britain 

 in quoting a famous phrase : that some day the ' thunders of English 

 cannon may be heard in — St. Angelo ? ' No, in Boston. When the 



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splendid Fine Arts building and the Public Library become targets 

 for long range projectiles, and the new ' Old South Church ' and 

 Trinity and all the magnificent residences of the ' Back Bay ' are 

 crumbling under the ' fire-ball of death/ surely they will be sorry that 

 an expenditure was not demanded, less, far less than the tribute that 

 might be demanded, to save their city from destruction. 



