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[Evasco]

Ed power began to ferment in the King's heart, and the Archbishop
opposed and reproved him, gently and tenderly at first, but ever more
gravely and steadfastly, coldness and estrangement divided them; and
soon that strange resemblance which gave them the aspect of twin
brothers, became a root of suspicion and dread in the King's mind, for
he reasoned with himself, "What more likely than that this masterful
prelate should dream of wearing the crown, he who so nearly resembles
the King that the mother of either might well pause ere she should say
which was her son? A foot of iron, and a sprinkling of earth, and
farewell Talisso! None would guess it was Desiderius who took his ease
in thy chair." Thus by degrees limitless power waxed into lawlessness,
and suspicion and dread into moroseness and cruelty, and on this rank
soil the red weeds of lust and hate and bitter pride sprang up and
choked all that was sweet and gracious and lovable in the nature of the
man. Then did the wise and gentle folk of Sarras come to perceive how
woefully they had been deceived in the tyrant they had crowned, and
speedily it came to pass that when they spoke of King Talisso they
breathed not his name, but using an ancient word to signify such insane
and evil pride as that of Lucifer and the Fallen Angels, they called him
the King Orgulous. Yet if this was the mind of the better folk, there
was no lack of base and venomous creatures--flatterers, time-servers, an
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