St. George and St. Michael Volume II by George MacDonald
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in acknowledgment of a debt of a quarter of a million, she took it
only as an additional sign--for additional proof there was no room--of their ever admirable devotion to his divine right. That the marquis and his son were catholics served but to glorify the right to which a hostile faith yielded such practical homage. Immediately after nightfall she repaired to Caspar, and between them everything was speedily arranged for the carrying out of lord Herbert's counter-plot. But night after night passed, and the bell in the marquis's room remained voiceless. CHAPTER XX. MOLLY AND THE WHITE HORSE. Meantime lord Herbert came and went. There was fighting here and fighting there, castles taken, defended, re-taken, here a little success and there a worse loss, now on this side and now on that; but still, to say the best, the king's affairs made little progress; |
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