"We work together no more. The small grey feathers of her exquisitely shaped fan waved gently backwards
and forwards. Wood, meanwhile, had summoned his men-servants, and having armed them
with such weapons as could be found, they proceeded to the garden, where the
first object they encountered was Thames Darrell, extended on the ground, and
weltering in his blood. ‘What the devil
for? I’ll have one of the men ride the creature up tomorrow. The
Master of the Mint, with whom the Jacobite captain had often had transactions
before, vouched for their being men of honour and loyalty; and Kneebone was so
well satisfied with his representations, that he at once closed the matter by
administering to the applicants the oath of allegiance and fidelity to King James
the Third, and several other oaths besides, all of which those gentlemen took
with as little hesitation as the sum of money, afterwards tendered, to make the
compact binding. "
"Six weeks!" exclaimed Thames, in a melancholy tone. "But I'm a
blackguard, too, Ruth. The rest of the crowd followed suit
with weak laughter. Her long incarceration at the convent
in Blaye had taught her to be dismissive of her own appearance. Shotbolt," cried the turnkey, "I've good news for you. And she was about as capable of intelligent argument as a runaway
steam-roller. Yes—as he would have liked.
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