Something that I used to know.

Summer time reading led me to the rereading of some of my old books.  When I first read "The Man Without A Country" when I was in eighth grade, I fully understood what I read.  Now when I come to the closing passage, "In Memory of Philip Nolan," I'm struggling to make sense of what it says:  "He loved his country as no other man has loved her, but no man deserved less at her hands."  Those dratted double negatives make my head spin.