‘You mean that his missus is pretending to be my mistress? Lord-a-mercy!’
‘Precisely. I wonder if some of them did—and it didn’t get
reported. By many a highwayman many a draught
Of nutty-brown ale at Saint Giles's was quaft,
Until the old lazar-house chanced to fall down,
And the broad-bottom'd bowl was removed to the Crown. “Glad to see you in London. 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. To shore up a
business that never had any foundation, he wanted me to lend him a hundred
thousand; and for his sake as well as for mine I had to refuse. I came to beg you instead to do
me the honour of becoming my wife. "Fear!" echoed Wild, in a terrible tone,—"fear! Repeat that word again, and
nothing shall save you. Passing at a glance over the whole of the intervening period; leaving in the
words of the poet,
—The growth untried
Of that wide gap—
we shall resume our narrative at the beginning of June, 1715. ‘Dieu du ciel, is this a way to have me say yes? If it is that you do not wish to,
why do you ask me?’
‘Ah. ”
“But don’t you see how I must stand to you? Don’t you see how it bars us
from being lovers—You can’t—at first. ”
“How do you mean, differently, Sebastian?”
“Truly beautiful women are exceedingly rare and they
always have been, Lucia. Soldiers
were stationed at different points of the street to keep off the mob, and others
were riding backwards and forwards to maintain an open space for the passage
of the procession.
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