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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

CHAPTER XVIII
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In Fuller he had found the corrupt heart, the ready tongue and the unabashed front which are the first qualifications for the office of a false accuser.

A friendship, if that word may be so used, sprang up between the pair.

Oates opened his house and even his purse to Fuller.

The veteran sinner, both directly and through the agency of his dependents, intimated to the novice that nothing made a man so important as the discovering of a plot, and that these were times when a young fellow who would stick at nothing and fear nobody might do wonders.

The Revolution,--such was the language constantly held by Titus and his parasites,--had produced little good.
The brisk boys of Shaftesbury had not been recompensed according to their merits.


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