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In the Irish Brigade

CHAPTER 4: At Versailles
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Whether that resentment will take the form of obtaining an order for your confinement in the Bastille, or other royal prison, or of getting you put out of the way by a stab in the back, I am unable to say, but in any case, I should advise you strongly to give up your fancy for wandering about after dark; and when you do go out, keep in the frequented portions of the town.
"Jack Farquharson, who was at Versailles with the colonel last week, was speaking of Mademoiselle Pointdexter, and said that she was charming.

Did you find her so ?" "I thought nothing about it, one way or the other," Desmond said, carelessly.

"I only saw her face by torchlight, and she was, of course, agitated by what had happened; and indeed, as I was busy helping Mike to yoke the horses to the carriage, I had scarcely time to look at her.

When we reached Versailles it was barely daylight.

I handed her out of the carriage, and left her to enter by herself, as I thought it was better that she should meet her father alone.


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