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Mistress Wilding

CHAPTER XV
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They, too, will be armed, I can assure your lordship." "In God's name let us keep from wrangling," the Duke besought them.

"It is difficult enough to determine for the best.

If the dash to Exeter were successful..." "It cannot be," Grey interrupted again.
The liberties he took with Monmouth and which Monmouth permitted him might well be a source of wonder to all who heard them.

Monmouth paused now in his interrupted speech and looked about him a trifle wearily.
"It seems idle to insist," said Mr.Wilding; "such is the temper of Your Grace's counsellors, that we get no further than contradictions." Grey's bold eyes were upon Wilding as he spoke.

"I would remind Your Grace, and I am sure that many present will agree with me, that in a desperate enterprise a sudden unexpected movement will often strike terror." "That is true," said Monmouth, but apparently without enthusiasm, and having approved what was urged on one side, he looked at Grey, as if waiting to hear what might be said on the other.


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