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The Grey Cloak

CHAPTER IX
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I will wear that token of vanity into rags.

Faith, I have not looked at it once since I loaned it to you." "And the unknown ?" "When we come to the end of a book, my poet, we lay it down.

What woman's love could surmount this birth of mine, these empty pockets?
I have still some reason; that bids me close the book.

Yonder, from what I have learned, they are in need of men's arms and brains, not ancestry, noble birth.

And there is some good blood in this arm, however it may have come into the world." The Chevalier extended it across the table and the veins swelled upon the wrist and hand.


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