[To Have and To Hold by Mary Johnston]@TWC D-Link bookTo Have and To Hold CHAPTER XVI IN WHICH I AM RID OF AN UNPROFITABLE SERVANT 15/24
good wine needs no bush...
good sherris sack"...
His voice died into unintelligible mutterings, and his gray unreverend head sank upon the table. I rose, leaving him to his drunken slumbers, and, bowing to my lord, took my leave.
My lord followed me down to the public room below.
A party of upriver planters had been drinking, and a bit of chalk lay upon a settle behind the door upon which the landlord had marked their score. I passed it; then turned back and picked it up.
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