‘Who, the émigrés?’ ‘Do I speak of the English, imbecile? Certainly the émigrés. On receiving the warning note from the ostler, Jack Sheppard and his companion left Willesden, and taking—as a blind—the direction of Harrow, returned at nightfall by a by-lane to Neasdon, and put up at a little public-house called the Spotted Dog. Then the lady smiled and her radiance, even in the darkness, warmed Gerald unexpectedly. ’ ‘How was it then that Nicholas Charvill was known to have gone to France. Then came the javelin-men, walking four abreast, and lastly, a long line of constables, marching in the same order. Solomon Smith, chapmen, (or what in modern vulgar parlance would be termed bagmen) travelling to procure orders for the house of an eminent cloth manufacturer in Manchester. His face was wreathed in smiles, his beringed hand was cordially outstretched. He proceeded to the deck, where Ruth and McClintock were waiting for him by the ladder. Ann Veronica was not ready enough to deal with that counter-stroke. It is for that reason that this novel begins with her there, and neither earlier nor later, for it is the history of this crisis and its consequences that this novel has to tell.
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