Better one King than a thousand butchers . I have lent a little money to the Barons , or they would torture us , but my most I will lend to the King . He hath promised me a place near him at Court , where my wife and I shall be safe . '' ' `` But if the King be made to keep these New Laws , '' I said , `` the land will have peace , and our trade will grow . If we lend he will fight again . '' ' `` Who made thee a Lawgiver in England ? '' said Elias . `` I know this people . Let the dogs tear one another ! I will lend the King ten thousand pieces of gold , and he can fight the Barons at his pleasure . '' ' `` There are not two thousand pieces of gold in all England this summer , '' I said , for I kept the accounts , and I knew how the earth 's gold moved -- that wonderful underground river . Elias barred home the windows , and , his hands about his mouth , he told me how , when he was trading with small wares in a French ship , he had come to the Castle of Pevensey . ' ` Oh ! ' said Dan . ` Pevensey again ! ' and looked at Una , who nodded and skipped . ` There , after they had scattered his pack up and down the Great Hall , some young knights carried him to an upper room , and dropped him into a well in a wall , that rose and fell with the tide . They called him Joseph , and threw torches at his wet head . Why not ? ' ` Why , of course ! '
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