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Allan and the Holy Flower

Allan and the Holy Flower
H. Rider Haggard

The Holy Flower is a 1915 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. It was serialised in The Windsor Magazine from issue 228 to 239 , illustrated by Maurice Greiffenhagen, and in New Story Magazine from December 1913 through June 1914. The plot involves Quatermain going on a trek into Africa to find a mysterious flower.

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“It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.”

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Allan and the Holy Flower (1915), CHAPTER I, BROTHER JOHN

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