5/34 "In some mode, or other, I always need your aid." "I understand the meaning of your words, Sir Gervaise, and appreciate the feeling that dictates them. You must have a perfect conviction that I will do nothing hastily, and that I will betray no trust. When I turn my back on King George, it will be loyalty, in one sense, whatever he may think of it in another; and when I join Prince Charles Edward, it will be with a conscience that he need not be ashamed to probe. What names he bears! They are the designations of ancient English sovereigns, and ought of themselves, to awaken the sensibilities of Englishmen." "Ay, Charles in particular," returned the vice-admiral, with something like a sneer. "There's the second Charles, for instance--St.Charles, as our good host, Sir Wycherly, might call him--he is a pattern prince for Englishmen to admire. |