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A Knight of the White Cross

CHAPTER I The King Maker
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He had, with two or three others, stolen out after midnight to see the battle, and was now making his way home again, having seen indeed but little, but having learned from fugitives that we had been defeated.

He guided me to the farmhouse, which otherwise I should assuredly never have reached.

His master was favourable to our party, and let the man take one of the cart horses, on which he rode as my guide until he had placed me upon the high road to St.Albans, and I was then able to gallop on at full speed." "And Warwick and his brother Montague are both killed ?" "Both.

The great Earl will make and unmake no more kings.

He has been a curse to England, with his boundless ambition, his vast possessions, and his readiness to change sides and to embroil the country in civil war for purely personal ends.


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