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The Star-Chamber, Volume 1

CHAPTER XII
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You fourth, Master Grocer.

And when they are surfeited with spiceries and fish, they will fall upon you, tooth and nail, Master Goldsmith." "I trow not," cried the apprentice last appealed to.

"Our masters are too rich and too powerful to submit to such usage." "The very reason they will undergo it," replied Dick.

"Their riches are only a temptation to plunder.

I repeat, no man is safe from these extortioners.


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