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THREE:Indeed he was so na?ve that it was not till Reuben had once or twice sneered at him in public that he realised there was any friction between Grandturzel[Pg 197] and Odiam, and even then he scarcely grasped its importance, for one night at the Cocks, Coalbran said rather maliciously to Reuben:
THREE:"And proof you shall have," replied the monk. "Holgrave, declare how you obtained the child!"
THREE:The crowd was like a boa-constrictor, it seemed to fold itself round him, smashing his ribs. He screamed, half suffocated. His forehead was blistered with heat. Again the crowd constricted. A dizziness came this time with the suffocation, and strange to say, as consciousness was squeezed out of him like wind out of a bellows, he had one last visit of that furious hate which had made him join the battlehate of those who had robbed his father of Boarzell, and hate of Boarzell itself, because he would never be able to tame it as one tames a bull with a ring in its nose."No, Margaret, I have sworn!" and no persuasion could induce him to alter his purpose.
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THREE:"I'll go up and see her soon as I've finishedHarry, t?ake your hand out of the baby's pl?ate."
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THREE:Chapter 5