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und writing,' Grant said.
'Well, I suppose it isn't visible unless you look into it. You're the first person I ever met who had a king for a pin-up.'
'No beauty, is he.'
'I don't know,' said the boy slowly. 'It's not a bad face, as faces go. I had a prof. at college who looked rather like him. He lived on bismuth and glasses of milk so he had a slightly' jaundiced outlook on life, but he was the kindest creature imaginable. Is it about Richard that you wanted information?'
'Yes. Nothing very abstruse or difficult. Just to know what the contemporary authority is.'
'Well, that should be easy enough. It isn't very far from my own time. I mean my research period. Indeed, the modern authority for Richard II- Sir Cuthbert Oliphant ? stretches over both. Have you read Oliphant? ',Grant said' that he had read nothing but school books and Sir Thomas'More. '
'More? Henry VIII's Chancellor?' 'Yes.'
'I take it that that was a bit of special pleading!'
'It read to me more like .a party pamphlet,' Grant said, realizing for the first time that that was the taste that had been left in his mouth. It had not read like a statesman's account; it had read like a party throw-away.
No, it had read like a columnist. Like a columnist who got his information below-stairs. '
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