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“Yet did my brother Hugh turn these faults to good account--he seeing that our brother Arthur’s health was but indifferent, and hoping the worst might work him profit were I swept out of the path--so--but ’twere a long tale, good my liege, and little worth the telling. Briefly, then, this brother did deftly magnify my faults and make them crimes; ending his base work with finding a silken ladder in mine apartments--conveyed thither by his own means--and did convince my father by this, and suborned evidence of servants and other lying knaves, that I was minded to carry off my Edith and marry with her in rank defiance of his will.