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To Have and To Hold

CHAPTER X IN WHICH MASTER PORY GAINS TIME TO SOME PURPOSE
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You, sir," to Rolfe, "give the word." Master Pory rose from his knees, unruffled and unabashed, and still with a curiously absent expression upon his fat face and with his ears cocked in the direction of the church.

"One moment, gentlemen," he said.

"I have just bethought me"-- "On guard!" cried Rolfe, and cut him short.
The King's favorite was no mean antagonist.

Once or twice the thought crossed my mind that here, where I least desired it, I had met my match.
The apprehension passed.

He fought as he lived, with a fierce intensity, a headlong passion, a brute force, bearing down and overwhelming most obstacles.


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