‘But who was he, Gerald?’
‘A damned condottiere,’ exploded Gerald, forgetting his company. 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. As
usual, Lucy traced over parts of her experiences in her
confidences with Shari, skipping lightly over her own
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story as a pebble would over a lake. ” There
was never any shortage of bad men to eat, especially with
pestilence and superstition to cover their tracks. ’
‘Oh, don’t I? What do you have under all those petticoats, a holster?’
‘But yes, and they are empty. She spent many days in the castle
alone as he busied himself with his alchemy, or traveled
to Florence to visit his remaining political connections. The question ceased to be a tea-table talk, and became suddenly tragically real
for Ann Veronica.
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