[A Jacobite Exile by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookA Jacobite Exile CHAPTER 11: With Brigands 22/38
He was the leader of their community, and had dealings with so many nobles that his influence was great; and, although he was little liked, he was regarded as an important person, and his loss was a very heavy one to the Jewish community.
A deputation went to the governor, and we heard that troops would be at once sent out to capture you, and the band of brigands you had joined.
Mr.Ramsay told me that it was fortunate, indeed, that you had not returned to the city.
But, no doubt, he has told you all that in the letter." "I feel quite another man, Stanislas," Charlie said, when he had changed his garments.
"Now I can read the letter you brought me." After expressing the great satisfaction he felt, at the news that Charlie was alive, Mr.Ramsay went on to say that, even were he well, he could not return to Warsaw in the present state of public feeling. "Your story that you were attacked, grievously wounded, and, after being confined here for some days, carried away and confined in the wood, by order of Ben Soloman, and that he visited you there, would be treated with derision.
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