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A Jacobite Exile

CHAPTER 12: Treed By Wolves
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At the same time, I understand that we cannot share your food, and be with you, without doing something.

Stanislas has brought me a little money from Warsaw, and I shall be ready to pay into the common treasury a sum sufficient to pay for our share of the food.

As to money taken, we shall not expect any share of it.

If you are attacked, we shall of course fight, and shall be ready to do our full share in all work.

So, at any rate, you will not be losers by taking us with you." "That is fair enough," the captain said, when Stanislas had translated what Charlie said, suppressing, however, his remarks about foraging with the army, as the brigands were ignorant that Charlie and he had any connection with the Swedes, or that he was not, as he had given out, a young Englishman come out to set up as a trader.
The band now journeyed slowly on, keeping near the north bank of the Dnieper.


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