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The Lady Of Blossholme

CHAPTER VIII
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They have my soul, and month by month I must confess.
You remember, Emlyn, I warned you when you and the lady would have ridden to London before the siege.

Well, afterward--I must confess it--the Abbot heard it himself, and oh! sore, sore was my penance.
Before I had done with it my ribs showed through my skin and my back was like a red osier basket.

There's only one thing I didn't tell them, because, after all, it is no sin to grub the earth off the face of a corpse." "Ah!" said Emlyn, looking at him.

"You're not to be trusted.

Well, I thought as much.


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