“I said quietly, my voice completely lost in the hubbub.“John,” said John glumly to the table.“John, sir, forgive me if I remind you that you were so gracious as to grant me an interview.”“Of course,” he said distractedly. “I have not forgotten. I will send Henry for you. Soon.”“It is of the greatest importance. It has to do with the safety of the village.”“That sounds very important indeed,” he said. But I could plainly see that he felt that nothing could be as important as what the messenger h...ad just announced.“Why shouldn’t I boast?” Lord Temsland said loudly to his wife and the audience. “Is this not the best parish in the king’s dominion?”We glanced furtively at one another’s unmended clothes, and at our shoes and stockings, stained and muddied by our untended pathways. We cast our minds with shame upon our unpainted doors and shutters that hung crookedly, and upon the refuse piles in our yards that had been allowed to grow too large. Even the manor walls wanted chinking.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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