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Sir Ludar

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
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The minister, she said, had pinched himself to shelter them for many a week, while they worked for him among the harvesters and in the dairy, in return.

But at last when Autumn came, and they could do no more to serve him, they departed, and petitioned the Company to admit them back to the printing house; which, after much ado, was granted, and so they continued with much labour to subsist.

But Peter, I was told afterwards, made himself master of everything, and, in return for his services, exacted all the profit, little as it was, they made by the printing.

At last, after lying six months in gaol, Master Walgrave grew weary, and permitted his wife to sue for him to the Bishop; which she did, and so prettily, that his Grace allowed the prisoner to go free, on his submission.

Since then, all had fared well.


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