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In the Irish Brigade

CHAPTER 5: A New Friend
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The colonel ordered in a dozen of champagne, and it was late before the party broke up.
"You see, we were pretty nearly right in our guess," O'Neil said, as he and O'Sullivan walked across with Desmond to their quarters.
"We said that we thought it likely she might have been carried off by one of the court gallants, who felt tolerably confident that, if successful, the king would overlook the offence.

This fellow, thanks to your interference, did not succeed; and the king has let him off, lightly enough, by only banishing him from court.

If it had been anyone but one of his favourites, he would, by this time, have been a tenant of the Bastille.
"I do not think, myself, that his punishment was adequate; but then, I am not a courtier, and should be rather glad than not, to be sent away to any estates I might have." "But," Desmond remarked, "I suppose the punishment is a severe one to these men, accustomed to a round of pleasure and dissipation, and who consider it the highest of earthly honours to be in favour with the king.

However, no one could be kinder than His Majesty has been, on the subject.

At the reception last night, at which he ordered the baron and his daughter to appear, he showed her the most marked favour, and particularly put a stop to all scandals, by saying loudly that de Tulle had never seen her, after the first morning of her capture." Six days later, when Desmond was engaged in the fencing room, Callaghan came in, and told him that a gentleman was at his quarters, wishing particularly to see him.
"What is his name ?" "Sure, and I don't know, your honour.


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