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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."
"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."
"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."
"God willing," Simon assented fervently.

 
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