But that's his American education. "Allow me to assist you, Sir James," said Hogarth. The spinster saw herself growing warm again in the morning sunshine of youth
—a flaring ember before the hearth grew cold. Part of her felt like laughing insanely at
how badly she had been duped. "You're mistaken, Winny. One of them was
a stout square-built man, with a singularly swarthy complexion, and harsh
forbidding features. Next to the receiver was a gang of housebreakers, laughing over their exploits,
and planning fresh depredations; and next to the housebreakers came two
gallant-looking gentlemen in long periwigs and riding-dresses, and equipped in
all other respects for the road, with a roast fowl and a bottle of wine before them. 59
He was not present during the night the next morning,
or the next, or the next. No blowzy barmaids for him to-day:
an American bar-keep to whom he could tell his troubles and receive the proper
meed of sympathy. Amid a litter of nails without heads, screws without worms,
and locks without wards, lay a glue-pot and an oilstone, two articles which their
owner was wont to term "his right hand and his left. He sat down beside her just as
the room became darker. 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.
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