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Lorna Doone
A Romance of Exmoor

CHAPTER XV
11/19

And because you have no gift of talking, I think that I may trust you.
Now, mark my words, this villain job shall not have ending here.

I have another card to play.' 'You mean, sir, I suppose, that you will go to the justices of this shire, Squire Maunder, or Sir Richard Blewitt, or--' 'Oaf, I mean nothing of the sort; they would only make a laughing-stock, as those Devonshire people did, of me.

No, I will go to the King himself, or a man who is bigger than the King, and to whom I have ready access.

I will not tell thee his name at present, only if thou art brought before him, never wilt thou forget it.' That was true enough, by the bye, as I discovered afterwards, for the man he meant was Judge Jeffreys.
'And when are you likely to see him, sir ?' 'Maybe in the spring, maybe not until summer, for I cannot go to London on purpose, but when my business takes me there.

Only remember my words, Jack, and when you see the man I mean, look straight at him, and tell no lie.


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