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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

CHAPTER XXX
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And I will say my say now, and ye may report it if ye be so minded.

I helped to hang my neighbors for that it were peril to my own life to show lack of zeal in the master's cause; the others helped for none other reason.
All rejoice to-day that he is dead, but all do go about seemingly sorrowing, and shedding the hypocrite's tear, for in that lies safety.

I have said the words, I have said the words! the only ones that have ever tasted good in my mouth, and the reward of that taste is sufficient.

Lead on, an ye will, be it even to the scaffold, for I am ready." There it was, you see.

A man is a man, at bottom.


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