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A Jacobite Exile

CHAPTER 6: A Prisoner
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The czar's is a good service, and we employ a score or two of Scotchmen, most of them in good posts.

He took to them because a Scotchman, General Gordon, and other foreign officers, rescued him from his sister Sophia, who intended to assassinate him, and established him firmly on the throne of his father.
"It is a pity you are not on this side.

Perhaps it isn't too late to change, eh ?" Charlie laughed.
"My father is in Sweden, and my company is commanded by a man who is as good as a father to me, and his son is like my brother.

If there were no other reason, I could not change.

Why, it was only yesterday I was sitting round a bivouac fire with King Charles, and nothing would induce me to fight against him." "I am not going to try to persuade you.


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