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A Jacobite Exile

CHAPTER 9: In Warsaw
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You will find details, in these written instructions, as to the manner in which you are to communicate, from time to time, the result of your mission, and you will receive orders when to return." Outside the house, Charlie saw his new servant waiting him.
"You have a horse, Stanislas ?" "Yes, sir, I have been provided with one.

I have also a brace of pistols, and a sword." "I hope you will not have to use them, but in these disturbed times they are necessaries." "I have better clothes than these, sir, if you wish me to look gay." "By no means," Charlie replied.

"I am going in the character of a young Scotchman, on my way to join a relative in business in Warsaw, and you accompany me in the capacity of guide and servant.
As I should not be in a position to pay high wages, the more humble your appearance, the better.

We start at six in the morning.

The envoy will leave the royal quarters at that hour, and we travel with his escort.


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