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A Prince of Cornwall

CHAPTER XI
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See, here it is.

The curl of it may have kept a fair draught in it for him." There were several horns standing in their silver or gilded rests on the table at his elbow, and he held up that one which had been brought to me, and then dropped it.
It fell with its mouth upward, rocking on the bend in its midst, so that it might well have had a gill or two left in it, for it had a twist as well as the curve in its length, which was somewhat longer than usual.
"Poison!" he said in a low voice.

"That a friend should be thus treated at my own door, by my own servant! What shall I say to you ?" "It is hard on you as on any one, Ealdorman," I answered.

"But the girl did not come from Jago.

Mara sent her in some way.


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