[Red Axe by Samuel Rutherford Crockett]@TWC D-Link bookRed Axe CHAPTER VI 5/11
When that is done they will rise in rebellion.
My very men-at-arms and knights I cannot depend upon--only upon you and the Black Riders." "In the matter of the Bishop's interdict, or in other matters, do you mean that you can trust my counsel, Duke Casimir ?" asked my father. "'Tis in the burial of the dead that the shoe will pinch first with these burghers of Thorn and among our soldiers at the Wolfsberg.
For mass, indeed, they care not a dove's dropping--but that the corpse should be carried to a dog's grave, that they cannot away with.
Red Axe, I tell you we shall have the State of the Mark about our ears in the slipping of a hound's leash--and as for me, I know not what I shall do." "Listen, and I will counsel you, Duke Casimir! Care you not though the east wind brought Bishop Peters whirling over the Mark, as many as the January snowflakes that come to us from Muscovy.
I, Gottfried Gottfried, tell you what to do.
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