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To Have and To Hold

CHAPTER IX IN WHICH TWO DRINK OF ONE CUP
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Buckingham stands by, biting his lip, his brow like a thundercloud.

You'll find in to-morrow's antagonist, Ralph Percy, as potent a conjurer as your cousin Hotspur found in Glendower.

He'll conjure you up the Tower, and a hanging, drawing, and quartering.

Who touches the King's favorite had safer touch the King.
It's _lese-majeste_, you contemplate." He lit his pipe and blew out a great cloud of smoke, then burst into a roar of laughter.

"My Lord High Admiral may see you through.


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