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Updated: June 7, 2025
You know what has happened since, I suppose? 'I know that they say Monmouth is taken, Sir Thomas, but I can't think it true, answered Swetman. 'O zounds! 'tis true enough, cried the knight, 'and that's not all. The Duke was executed on Tower Hill two days ago. 'D'ye say it verily? says Swetman. 'And a very hard death he had, worse luck for 'n, said Sir Thomas.
According to the kinsman who told me the story, Christopher Swetman's house, on the outskirts of King's-Hintock village, was in those days larger and better kept than when, many years later, it was sold to the lord of the manor adjoining; after having been in the Swetman family, as one may say, since the Conquest.
Though I have not injured your daughter as a woman, I have been treacherous to her as a hostess and friend in need. I'll go, as you say; I can do no less. I shall doubtless find a refuge elsewhere. They walked towards the house in silence, where Swetman insisted that his guest should have supper before departing. By the time this was eaten it was dusk and the stranger announced that he was ready.
The possibility that his guest had been no other than the Duke made Swetman unspeakably sorry now; his heart smote him at the thought that, acting so harshly for such a small breach of good faith, he might have been the means of forwarding the unhappy fugitive's capture. On the girls coming up to him he said, 'Get away with ye, wenches: I fear you have been the ruin of an unfortunate man!
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