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No Surrender!

CHAPTER 2: The Beginning Of Troubles
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Now, if I remain here, I have no doubt that I shall be denounced in a very short time; and to be denounced is to be thrown into prison, and to be thrown into prison is equivalent to being murdered.

I have no doubt, Patsey, that you would share my fate.

The fact that you are an Englishwoman was among the accusations brought against me, in the club; and although, so far as I can see, the majority of these scoundrels have no religion whatever, they venture to make it a matter of complaint that you are a Protestant.
"I have seen this coming on for some time, and must now make my choice; either I must take you and the child over to England, and leave you there with your father until these troubles are over, while I must myself go down and look after my tenantry, and bear my share in whatever comes; or you must go down there with me." "Certainly I will go down with you, Jean.

It is your home, and whatever dangers may come I will share them with you.

It would be agony to be in England, and to know nothing of what is passing here, and what danger might be threatening you.


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