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The King’s Achievement

CHAPTER III
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Brother James told the guest-cook as soon as you came." He seemed to want no answer, but talked on genially and restfully about the commissioners who had come from Cluny to see after their possessions in England, and their queer French ways.
"Dom Philippe would not touch the muscadel at first, and now he cannot have too much.

He clamoured for claret at first, and we had to give him some.

But he knows better now.

But he says mass like a holy angel of God, and is a very devout man in all ways.

But they are going soon." Dom Anthony fulfilled to perfection the ideal laid down for a guest-master in the Custumal.


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