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The Path of the King

CHAPTER 3
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But if the Sire God in His inscrutable providence should call your son to His holy side, what provision have you made for so mighty a fortune?
Does your daughter then share ?" The face on the pillows became suddenly wicked and very old.

The eyes were lit with hate.
"Not a bezant of which I have the bequeathing.

She has something from Willebald, and her dull husband makes a livelihood.

'Twill suffice for the female brats, of whom she has brought three into the world to cumber it....

By the Gospels, she will lie on the bed she has made.


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