I've sent for the priest. The
Master of the Mint, with whom the Jacobite captain had often had transactions
before, vouched for their being men of honour and loyalty; and Kneebone was so
well satisfied with his representations, that he at once closed the matter by
administering to the applicants the oath of allegiance and fidelity to King James
the Third, and several other oaths besides, all of which those gentlemen took
with as little hesitation as the sum of money, afterwards tendered, to make the
compact binding. Ann Veronica sat back in an attitude of inattention, her eyes on
a distant game of cricket, her mind perplexed and busy. "
"I hadn't thought of that. "
"Lord!—think of having sharks for neighbours? Every morning I'll take a dip
into the lagoon. The title had formerly
been held by Gianfrancesco’s brother, Alessia, now dead
of plague. "Precisely. And the way
he and the other men looked at her!
The desire was plain on their faces, so many noblemen
reduced to their simplest elements! They looked at her
sideways, they looked at her backside, scanning her blue
eyes and even looking right into her face. Then he stood up and hailed a fiacre.
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