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He fled, a ruined man, back to his native county and his noble old seat of Affton; but Ate is on the heels of such 'Slowly she tracks him and sure, as a lyme-hound, sudden she grips him, Crushing him, blind in his pride, for a sign and a terror to mortals. A terrible plebiscitum had been passed in the West country against the betrayer of its last Worthy.
In a chamber of that ruin died Sir Lewis Stukely, Lord of Affton, cursing God and man. These things are true. Said I not well that reality is stranger than romance? But no Nemesis followed James. The answer will depend much upon what readers consider to be a Nemesis.
The gentlemen closed their doors against him; the poor refused him so goes the legend fire and water. Driven by the Furies, he fled from Affton, and wandered westward down the vale of Taw, away to Appledore, and there took boat, and out into the boundless Atlantic, over the bar, now crowded with shipping, for which Raleigh's genius had discovered a new trade and a new world.
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