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The Tavern Knight

CHAPTER II
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But Galliard answered coldly: "You forget, Harry." "Not so! Surely on Cromwell's side your object--" "T'sh! I have well considered.

My fortunes are bound up with the King's.
In his victory alone lies profit for me; not the profit of pillage, Hogan, but the profit of those broad lands that for nigh upon twenty years have been in usurping hands.

The profit I look for, Hogan, is my restoration to Castle Marleigh, and of this my only hope lies in the restoration of King Charles.

If the King doth not prevail--which God forfend!--why, then, I can but die.

I shall have naught left to hope for from life.


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