“Really, Sir John,” she said, “I don’t know how to thank you. ” His face darkened. "I did see them on the platform of the bridge—the child and his preserver! They were not struck by the fallen ruin, nor whelmed in the roaring flood,—or, if they were, they escaped as I escaped. But over against the world Miss Miniver assembled a small but energetic minority, the Children of Light—people she described as “being in the van,” or “altogether in the van,” about whom Ann Veronica’s mind was disposed to be more sceptical. At length, however, the prisoner was got out, when such was the rush of the multitude that several persons were trampled down, and received severe injuries. “This,” he said, and then: “No! Is this sweeter? Very well. I cannot have my wife distressed or worried. And it’s gorgeous!” “Glorious!” said Ann Veronica. ’ ‘That wasn’t my fault. It was really most vivid, most vivid! You seemed to be slipping and just going to tumble and holding on. But David Courtlaw has been here. For five minutes he has been trying to think of something to say. 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. Everything seemed designed to unhinge the mind and make the cat wretched. He made his speech a little elaborately.
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