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A Jacobite Exile

CHAPTER 2: Denounced
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You had better go to him now; supper will be served in half an hour.

I will talk with you again, afterwards." Harry was waiting outside the door, having also heard the news of Sir Marmaduke's arrest.
"It is villainous!" he exclaimed, when he heard the whole story.
"No doubt you are right, and that John Dormay is at the bottom of it all.

The villain ought to be slain." "He deserves it, Harry; and, if I thought it would do good, I would gladly fight him, but I fear that it would do harm.

Such a scoundrel must needs be a coward, and he might call for aid, and I might be dragged off to Lancaster.

Moreover, he is Ciceley's father, and my cousin Celia's husband, and, were I to kill him, it would separate me altogether from them.


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