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hance of a crown. He may have said - I mean his blood may have said:
"Here's my chance! All those years of fetching and carrying and standing one pace in the rear, and no thanks for them. Here's where 1 take my pay. Here's where I settle accounts."
Grant noticed that by sheer chance Carradine had used the same imagined description of Richard as Miss 'Payne-Ellis. Standing one pace in the rear. That is how 'the novelist had seen him, standing with the fair, 'solid Margaret and George on the steps of Baynard's Castle, watching their father go away to war. One pace in the rear, 'as' usual'.
'That's very interesting, though, what you say about Richard being apparently a good sort up to the time of the' crime,' Carradine said, propping one leg of his horn-rims with a long forefinger in his characteristic gesture. 'Makes him more of a person. That Shakespeare version of him, you know, that's just a caricature. Not a man at all. I'll be very pleased to do any investigating you want, Mr Grant. It'll make a nice change from the peasants.'
'The Cat and the Rat instead of John Ball and Wat Tyler.' -
'That's it.'
'Well, it's very nice of you. I'd be glad of anything you can rake up. But at the moment all I pine for is a conte
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