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Count Hannibal

CHAPTER XXVII
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And Thuriot, who prints for the University! Would you 'scape them?
You would?
Then listen to me.

I want but two things.

First, how many men has Montsoreau's fellow in the Castle?
Few, I know, for he is a niggard, and if he spends, he spends the Duke's pay." "Twelve.

But five can hold it." "Ay, but twelve dare not leave it! Let them stew in their own broth! And now for the other matter.

See, man, that before daybreak three gibbets, with a ladder and two ropes apiece, are set up in the square.


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