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“Firstly by my face,”said Caspian.“Secondly because I know within six guesses who you are.You are one of those seven lords of Narnia whom my Uncle Miraz sent to sea and whom I have come out to look for—Argoz,Bern,Octesian,Restimar, Mavramorn,or—or—I have forgotten the others.And finally,if your Lordship will give me a sword I will prove on any man’s body in clean battle that I am Caspian the son of Caspian,lawful King of Narnia,Lord of Cair Paravel,and Emperor of the Lone Islands.”
“By heaven,”exclaimed the man,“it is his father’s very voice and trick of speech.My liege—your Majesty—”And there in the field he knelt and kissed the King’s hand.
“The moneys your Lordship disbursed for our person will be made good from our own treasury,”said Caspian.
“They’re not in Pug’s purse yet,Sire,”said the Lord Bern, for he it was.“And never will be,I trust.I have moved His Sufficiency the Governor a hundred times to crush this vile traffic in man’s flesh.”
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