"But I'm a
blackguard, too, Ruth. On the same day, moreover, which, by a
curious coincidence, was the birthday of the Chevalier de Saint George, mobs
were collected together in the streets, and the health of that prince was publicly
drunk under the title of James the Third; while, in many country towns, the bells
were rung, and rejoicings held, as if for a reigning monarch:—the cry of the
populace almost universally being, "No King George, but a Stuart!"
The adherents of the Chevalier de Saint George, we have said, were lavish in
promises to their proselytes. Our heads swim with the thought of
being together. Destruction
everywhere marked its course. "You'll pardon an old woman, Miss Enschede," said Sister Prudence; "but where
in this world did you get that dress?"
Ruth picked up both sides of the skirt and spread it, looking down. It was an oldfashioned peasant blouse, white, square necked, and
trimmed with lace. ‘What Frenchman would that be, missie? We
ain’t let no one escape. "
"Jacobite!" echoed Mrs.
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