Lightheaded, she
threw up in the courtyard of the Palazzo as servants
crowded her in alarm. 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. Melusine glanced towards the
elderly dame and found that sharp gaze directed upon her. Why open my mouth if there might not be a need for it when
all’s said?’
Melusine acknowledged the logic of this. Until she had left her island, what
she heard and what she saw were truths.
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