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The Puppet Crown

CHAPTER V
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But you who laugh at the archbishop--" "He is too old." "So you say.

But he has dreams unknown to us.

He has ceased to act; why?
He is waiting for the curtain to rise.

Nothing escapes him; he is letting us go to what end we will, only, if we do not act at once, to draw us to a sudden halt.

Now to this meddling Englishman: we have offered him a million--five millions for four.


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