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The Touchstone of Fortune

CHAPTER IX
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Kidnapped the wrong woman and lost her! Odds fish! But you're a pair of wise ones.

I see I shall have to find me a new Lord High Kidnapper." The king was right concerning the lampooners, for soon they had the story, and he became the laughing-stock of London, though Frances's name was not mentioned.
It is a significant index to the morals of our time that the king's attempt to kidnap a woman in the streets of London should have aroused laughter rather than indignation.
As it was, the kidnapping episode brought no harm to my cousin, but she did not want it to happen again, and so was careful to take a trusted escort with her when she went abroad thereafter..


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