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And
with one scene therein, and it the most momentous in all my days,
I shall begin my tale.
I beg you convey to Mr. Pitt my most obedient compliments,
and say that I take his polite wish as my command.
With every token of my regard, I am, dear Ned, affectionately
your friend,
Robert Moray

I
AN ESCORT TO THE CITADEL

When Monsieur Doltaire entered the salon, and, dropping lazily
into a chair beside Madame Duvarney and her daughter, drawled out,
"England's Braddock--fool and general--has gone to heaven, Captain
Moray, and your papers send you there also," I did not shift a jot,
but looked over at him gravely--for, God knows, I was startled--and
I said,
"The General is dead?"
I did not dare to ask, Is he defeated? though from Doltaire's
look I was sure it was so, and a sickness crept through me, for
at the moment that seemed the end of our cause. But I made as if
I had not heard his words about my papers.
"Dead as a last years courtier, shifted from the scene," he
replied; "and having little now to do, we'll go play with the rat
in our trap.


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