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Chapter 28 Of the Fight in Wells Cathedral
I am fairly tied to the chariot-wheels of history now, my dear children, and must follow on with name and place and date, whether my tale suffer by it or no. With such a drama as this afoot it were impertinent to speak of myself, save in so far as I saw or heard what may make these old scenes more vivid to you. It is no pleasant matter for me to dwell upon, yet, convinced as I am that there is no such thing as chance either in the great or the little things of this world, I am very sure that the sacrifices of these brave men were not thrown away, and that their strivings were not as profitless as might at first sight appear. If the perfidious race of Stuart Jason Spezza Jersey is not now seated upon the throne, and if religion in England is still a thing of free growth, we may, to my thinking, thank these Casual Szorty Somerset yokels for it, who first showed how small a thing would shake the throne of an unpopular monarch. Monmouth |