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' he said, accusing, to The Amazon the moment her large person appeared in the doorway.
She looked startled, not at his news but at his ferocity. Her eyes looked as if they might brim with tears at another rough word.
'But of course he knew!' she protested. 'He lived then.'
'He was eight when Richard died,' Grant said, relentless. 'And all he knew was what he had been told. Like me. Like you. Like Will Rogers of blessed memory. There is nothing hallowed at all about Sir Thomas More's history of Richard III. It's a damned piece of hearsay and a swindle.'
'Aren't you feeling so well this morning?' she asked anxiously. 'Do you think you've got a temperature?'
'I don't know about a temperature, but my blood pressure's away up.'
'Oh dear, dear,' she said, taking this literally. 'And you were doing so very well. Nurse Ingham will be so distressed. She has been boasting about your good recovery.'
That The Midget should have found him a subject for boasting was a new idea to Grant, but it was not one that gave him any gratification. He resolved to have a temperature in earnest if he could manage it, just to score off The Midget.
But the morning visit of Mart
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