Be frank, I beg you, Miss Pellissier. Arms, horses, and accoutrements were secretly purchased and distributed; and it
is not improbable that, if the unfortunate prince, in whose behalf these exertions
were made, and who was not deficient in courage, as he proved at the battle of
Malplaquet, had boldly placed himself at the head of his party at an earlier
period, he might have regained the crown of his ancestors. What you said wanted saying. The
necessity of defending herself and assuming a confident and secure tone did
much to dispell the sense of being exposed and indefensible in a huge dingy
world that abounded in sinister possibilities. “What made you marry him? What made you
leave Paris without a word to any one? What made you and your sister exchange
identities?”
“There is one answer to all those questions, Nigel,” she said, with a nervous little
shudder. A native of
Manchester, he was the son of Kenelm Kneebone, a staunch Catholic, and a
sergeant of dragoons, who lost his legs and his life while fighting for James the
Second at the battle of the Boyne, and who had little to bequeath his son except
his laurels and his loyalty to the house of Stuart.
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