[Clementina by A.E.W. Mason]@TWC D-Link bookClementina CHAPTER VIII 11/30
"We are to rescue her from her prison in Innspruck." Even Gaydon was startled. "We four!" he exclaimed. "We four!" repeated Misset, staring at Wogan.
His mouth was open; his eyes started from his head; he stammered in his speech.
"We four against a nation, against half Europe!" O'Toole simply crossed to a corner of the room, picked up his sword and buckled it to his waist. "I am ready," said he. Wogan turned round in his chair and smiled. "I know that," said he.
"So are we all--all ready; is not that so, my friends? We four are ready." And he looked to Misset and to Gaydon. "Here's an exploit, if we but carry it through, which even antiquity will be at pains to match! It's more than an exploit, for it has the sanctity of a crusade.
On the one side there's tyranny, oppression, injustice, the one woman who most deserves a crown robbed of it.
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