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"And yet you go on serving such masters," burst out Mobray. "Come over to us, Charl John. Sir William would give you " "Enough," interrupted Brereton, angrily. "For how long, Sir Frederick, have you deemed me capable of treachery?" "'T is no treachery to leave this unnatural rebellion and take sides with our good king." "Such talk is idle, and you should know it, Mobray.
"Devil seize me, but you shall attend, if it takes a provost guard to do it," predicted Mobray. Neither the protests nor prayers of the baronet, however, served to gain Mrs. Meredith's consent that her daughter should enter what she called "The Devil's Pit," but what he could not bring to pass the commissary did.
"Body o' me!" ejaculated one of the new-corners. "Dost take us for Satan himself, that ye greet us so?" "Tush, man!" corrected Mobray. "Miss Meredith could not see under our cloaks, and so, no doubt, thought us rebels. Who wouldn't scream at the prospect of an attack of the Continental blue devils eh, Miss Janice?" "Better the blue devils," retorted Janice, "than a scarlet fever."
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