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Michel and Angele [A Ladder of Swords]
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CHAPTER XV
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I yield it all to you--for your sake and my own.

I would steal from life yet before my sun goes to its setting a few years of truth and honesty and clear design.

At heart I am a patriot--a loyal Englishman.

Your cause--the cause of Protestantism--did I not fight for it at Rochelle?
Have I not ever urged the Queen to spend her revenue for your cause, to send her captains and her men to fight for it ?" She raised her head in interest, and her lips murmured: "Yes, yes, I know you did that." He saw his advantage and pursued it.

"See, I will be honest with you--honest, at last, as I have wished in vain to be, for honesty was misunderstood.


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