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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: .55 CHAPTER IV. A supple, servile, heartless, knave, Who, while he owned himself a slave. Sang his own paean. Yet merrier wae you ne'er shall meet, Nor a more selfish and complete Epicurean. Neither his predilection for Beatrice, nor his ' deliberations as to the form, in which he should indite the letter declining the hand of the inanimate Bridget, were suffered by Dudley to banish from his mind the duty that he owed to his unfortunate cousin Cecil, or to check the speed with which he urged his progress to London. Sir Lionel, he was well aware, would anticipate his designs, and quickly put every engine in motion to frustrate them. With such an active and powerful adversary, no time was to be lost. His military habits had enabled him to endure fatigue; and he accordingly pushed forward with a rapidity that somewhat disconcerted Pierre, who, being a less practised horseman than his master, would have frequently flagged, had he not recruited his spirits by going through the whole round of his songs and ballads. During his progress it had occurred to Dudley, that from the multiplicity of the Lord Cardinal's avocations, and the great difficulty of obtaining personal access to him, without the intervention of some resident in London who might have influence enough to second the abbot's letter, and press upon his lordship's attention the necessity of prompt measures, it would be highly advisable to secure the co-operation of his kinsman Sir John Dudley. The father of this young man, together with his colleague Empson, had been executed in the first year of the king's reign, for oppressions and extortions committed by order of his royal predecessor; but as he had been merely sacrificed to appease the indignant people, no portion of his disgrace had descended to his son, who ..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217109697 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217109691 |
| Weight | 0.60 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.41 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 180 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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