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Show 21 aloud, then haughtily sneered as she left the room, "Who cares about Sir Walter Raleigh, any'ow?" "I can't remember...why was ee put in the Tower?" Benny had decided that it was a story he would like to hear again. "It was some kind of a trumped-up charge for treason." Samuel didn't want to repeat the story he felt Barbara had ruined. "What's treason?" persisted Benny. "It means like betraying the King or Queen," Samuel said with impatience. i "What's 'betraying' eh?" Benny liked asking questions. "It's like reckoning to be a friend and then turning out to be an enemy." Samuel's voice was loud. "What's..." "Dunderhead! I'm not answerin any more questions!" Barbara poked her head into the room and spoke contemptuously to Benjamen. "To go agen the King is the worst thing thee can do in England. Everybody knaws that!" Samuel picked up a pillow-and hurled it at Barbara as Elise stepped in and received the pillow in her face. Shaking from the sudden scare and humiliation, |
