[A Jacobite Exile by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookA Jacobite Exile CHAPTER 16: In England Again 11/37
You must make up your mind that it will be a long search before you light on the fellow, for we have no clue as to the tavern he frequents.
As a roistering young squire, wanting to see London life, you could go into taverns frequented by doubtful characters, for it is probably in such a place that you will find him. "However, all this I must leave to you.
You showed yourself, in that Polish business, well able to help yourself out of a scrape, and if you could do that among people of whose tongues you were ignorant, you ought to be able to manage on English soil." "At any rate, I will do my best, father, of that you may be sure.
I have the advantage of knowing the fellow, and am pretty certain that he will not know me." "Not he, Charlie," his father said confidently.
"Even in the last two years, since you were here with Jervoise and the others, you have changed so much that I, myself, might have passed you in the street without knowing you. "Now, you had better go off and see about your things.
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