Ah, it's Chrysophylax speaking to
Farmer Giles of Ham:
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'If you will leave me what remains,' said he very wily, 'I'll be your friend forever. And I will carry all this treasure back to your honour's own house and not to the King's. And I wil help you to keep it, what is more,' said he.
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth..
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