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A Jacobite Exile

CHAPTER 15: An Old Acquaintance
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I found you were not among the prisoners, and I wondered if you were among the killed." "I was not in Livonia at the time.

I was with the king's army at Warsaw.

Three regiments were sent off, the day after the battle of Clissow, by boats down the Vistula, and then by ship to Revel.

Mine was one of them, but we arrived a fortnight too late." "Then you were present at Charles' third victory?
How that young fellow handles his troops, and what wonderful troops they are! Now we will get into our easy chairs again, and you shall tell me something about what you have been doing, since we last met." Charlie gave a sketch of his adventures.
"So you fought at the Dwina, too?
You have had luck in going through three battles without a wound." When Charlie stated that he had gone to Warsaw on a private mission, whose nature was immaterial to the story, the doctor broke in: "You need not tell me what it was, it was of course something to do with Augustus.

The way Charles is hunting down that unfortunate king is shocking, it is downright malignity.


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