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hurt his foot, he blames for his pain the one who last mentioned apples to him and says he hates apples anyway." |
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"Blames the one who last mentioned apples, eh?" Simon repeated, smiling. "Now that would be a good thing for us and a bad thing for Winchester. If enough blame could be heaped up quickly . . . Hubert de Burgh made fewer mistakes and those further apart from each other, I think." |
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"You think quite correctly, Simon. I did not like de Burgh. I am glad he was cast down, although I think it wrong he should be treated so harshly. However, I will say for de Burgh that, at his worst, he never drove the barons to rebellion. That mistake will come home to roost and lay the largest egg." |
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"God willing," Simon assented fervently. |
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