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The Last Of The Barons
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CHAPTER VI
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Rise up, Master Nevile, we esteem thee not less for thy boldness; ever be the host and the benefactor revered by English gentlemen and Christian youth.

Master Warner may go free." Here Warner uttered so deep and hollow a groan, that it startled all present.
"Twenty-five years of labour, and not to have seen this!" he ejaculated.
"Twenty and five years, and all wasted! How repair this disaster?
O fatal day!" "What says he?
What means he ?" said Jacquetta.
"Come home!--home!" said Marmaduke, approaching the philosopher, in great alarm lest he should once more jeopardize his life.

But Adam, shaking him off, began eagerly, and with tremulous hands, to examine the machine, and not perceiving any mode by which to guard in future against a danger that he saw at once would, if not removed, render his invention useless, tottered to a chair and covered his face with his hands.
"He seemeth mightily grieved that our bones are still whole!" muttered Edward.

"And why, belle-mere mine, wouldst thou protect this pleasant tregetour ?" "What!" said the duchess, "see you not that a man capable of such devices must be of doughty service against our foes ?" "Not I.How ?" "Why, if merely to signify his displeasure at our young Richard's over-curious meddling, he can cause this strange engine to shake the walls,--nay, to destroy itself,--think what he might do were his power and malice at our disposing.

I know something of these nigromancers." "And would you knew less! for already the commons murmur at your favour to them.


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