[The Last Of The Barons<br> Complete by Edward Bulwer-Lytton]@TWC D-Link book
The Last Of The Barons
Complete

CHAPTER IX
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"Do you suspect me still, prince ?" he whispered.
The duke shrugged his shoulders, and Adam, breaking from Marmaduke and Sibyll, passed with tottering steps to the shattered labour of his solitary life.

He looked at the ruin with mournful despondence, with quivering lips.

"Have you done with me ?" then he said, bowing his head lowlily, for his pride was gone; "may we--that is, I and this, my poor device--withdraw from your palace?
I see we are not fit for kings!" "Say not so," said the young duke, gently: "we have now convinced ourselves of our error, and I crave thy pardon, Master Warner, for my harsh dealings.

As for this, thy toy, the king's workmen shall set it right for thee.

Smith, call the fellows yonder, to help bear this to--" He paused, and glanced at Hastings.
"To my apartments," said the chamberlain.


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