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Captain Blood

CHAPTER III
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"Why, what should you have been doing there in the company of rebels, two of whom--Lord Gildoy and your fellow there--have already admitted their guilt ?" "That is what I beg leave to tell your lordship." "I pray you do, and in God's name be brief, man.

For if I am to be troubled with the say of all you traitor dogs, I may sit here until the Spring Assizes." "I was there, my lord, in my quality as a physician, to dress Lord Gildoy's wounds." "What's this?
Do you tell us that you are a physician ?" "A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin." "Good God!" cried Lord Jeffreys, his voice suddenly swelling, his eyes upon the jury.

"What an impudent rogue is this! You heard the witness say that he had known him in Tangiers some years ago, and that he was then an officer in the French service.

You heard the prisoner admit that the witness had spoken the truth ?" "Why, so he had.

Yet what I am telling you is also true, so it is.


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