He had been
abusing them for a long time when I arrived. It appears that he was an
unsuccessful admirer of the lady in question, and he admits that, under the
influence of drink, he broke into her rooms, and there made a determined
attempt at suicide. 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. "
"How long will you be here?"
"To-morrow night. It’s all very fine and all
that, Vee, this freedom, but it isn’t going to work. And one must—some of it must slip through
one’s fingers.
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