With a fair wind from across the Channel, that should change in 2012.

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With generosity, luck and a fair wind, that might reduce the volatility, but it would be foolish to imagine that ancient animosities will by then be entirely dead, or that recent upheavals will be forgotten.

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The young man, who was tall and thin, with sun-streaked fair hair, and a wind- and sun-burned face, who wore the sun-faded flannel shirt, a pair of peasant's trousers and rope-soled shoes, leaned over, put his arm through one of the leather pack straps and swung the heavy pack up onto his shoulders.

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