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The Tavern Knight

CHAPTER VII
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The Parliament allowed their claim, and they were installed.

But when I came they were away, following the fortunes of the Parliament that had served them so well.

And so I determined to let my vengeance wait until the war were ended and the Parliament destroyed.

In a hundred engagements did I distinguish myself by my recklessness even as at other seasons I distinguished myself by my debaucheries.
"Ah, Kenneth, you have been hard upon me for my vices, for my abuses of the cup, and all the rest.

But can you be hard upon me still, knowing what I had suffered, and what a weight of misery I bore with me?
I, whose life was wrecked beyond salvation; who only lived that I might slit the throats of those that had so irreparably wronged me.


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