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The Lion’s Skin

CHAPTER XIII
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I have seen Atterbury.
He knows my mind.

There lately came an agent from the king, it seems, to enjoin the bishop to abandon this conspiracy, telling him that the time was not yet ripe.

Atterbury scorns to act upon that order.

He will work in the king's interests against the king's own commands even." "Then, 'tis possible he may work to his own undoing," said Mr.Caryll, to whom this was, after all, no news.
"Nay, nay; you have been sick; you do not know how things have sped in this past month.

Atterbury holds, and he is right, I dare swear--he holds that never will there be such another opportunity.


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