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In the Irish Brigade

CHAPTER 4: At Versailles
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However, you are wrong now.

I will tell you the affair, just as it happened." And he related, in detail, the story of the rescue of Mademoiselle Pointdexter, and the manner in which he had conveyed her to Versailles.
"By Saint Bridget, Kennedy, we were not far wrong when we called you a knight errant.

Well, this is something like an adventure, though whether it will end well or ill for you I cannot say.

Did you learn the name of the person who had the girl carried off ?" "No.

I asked no questions, and indeed had but little conversation with her; for, as I have told you, I put her in a carriage, with the old hag who was in charge of her, and rode myself by the side of it, in case the old woman should try to escape." "A truly discreet proceeding, Kennedy," O'Neil laughed.


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