The beautiful city
that she had been awed by and even grown to love had
been abandoned. “I’ll come to the station,” said Ann Veronica. Families had seen their lands seized, their
chateaux ransacked or burned, and those unlucky enough to have failed to
anticipate disaster, had been murdered or dragged away to gaol. He
was certain that those lips of hers had never known the natural and pardonable
simper of youth. ”
“That is why they hissed me, then?”
“Of course. And so,
the invasion really is to take place after all; and the Chevalier de Saint George is
to land at the Tower with fifty thousand Frenchmen; and the Hanoverian
usurper's to be beheaded; and Doctor Sacheverel's to be made a bishop, and
we're all to be—eh?"
"All in good time," returned Kneebone, putting his finger to his lips; "don't let
your imagination run away with you, my charmer. Sometimes I am
frightfully busy; and then there will be periods of dullness. Unless women are never
to be free, never to be even respected, there must be a generation of martyrs.
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