The flowers upon the mantel-shelf were withered and
drooping—she had gathered them. This young man did not drink because he
sought the false happiness that lured men to the bottle. 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. But—it’s one of the things I’ve
just been thinking over. Her glance, absorbing the gilt letters and their significance, communicated to her
poised body a species of paralysis. Since Mary predeceased Jarvis, Nicholas could scarcely argue
himself to be my brother’s next of kin. She put
back her hood in a determined way.
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