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Michel and Angele [A Ladder of Swords]
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CHAPTER XIV
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What is your country?
"I am an exile, your high Majesty; and the only land for which I raise my sword this day is that land where I have found safety from my enemies." The Queen turned and smiled at the Duke's Daughter.

"I knew not where my own question might lead, but he hath turned it to full account," she said, under her breath.

"His tongue is as ready as his spear.

Then ye have both laboured in England's honour, and I drink to you both," she added, and raised to her lips a glass of wine which a page presented.
"I love ye both--in your high qualities," she hastened to add with dry irony, and her eye rested mockingly on Leicester.
"My lords and gentlemen and all of my kingdom," she added in a clear voice, insistent in its force, "ye have come upon May Day to take delight of England in my gardens, and ye are welcome.

Ye have seen such a sight as doeth good to the eyes of brave men.


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