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Micah Clarke

CHAPTER XXI
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We shall then make our way Bristolwards, and see what luck awaits us in the North.

If Beaufort comes over all will be well.
Farewell, my kind friends! I need not tell ye to be diligent and faithful.' The council rose at the King's salutation, and bowing to him they began to file out of the Castle hall.

Several of the members clustered round me with hints for my journey or suggestions as to my conduct.
'He is a proud, froward man,' said one.

'Speak humbly to him or he will never hearken to your message, but will order you to be scourged out of his presence.' 'Nay, nay!' cried another.

'He is hot, but he loves a man that is a man.


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