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hid its unceasing fears under gigantic propositions of
daring; but the king, chastened by experience, had all the while an unconfessed misgiving; and slyly timid, delighted in intrigue and menace, affected to be angry at the peace, and was perpetually stimulating France to undertake a new war, of which he yet carefully avoided the outbreak.
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