She made herself serenely unaware of his existence, though it may be it was his presence that sent her by the field detour instead of by the direct path up the Avenue. In this state Mrs. ‘That’s wicked, that is. She was a lone white woman, therefore marked. Don’t stand gawping, man. An hour later the doctor arrived; and after a thorough examination, he looked doubtful. Lucy had passed the house once on the sidewalk, on a rare day when he was shoveling snow. The action did not pass unnoticed by Sheppard. A full-curled wig descended half-way down his back and shoulders; a neckcloth of "right Mechlin" was twisted round his throat so tightly as almost to deprive him of breath, and threaten him with apoplexy; he had lace, also, at his wrists and bosom; gold clocks to his hose, and red heels to his shoes. His patient was distinctly of a different order of life. 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.
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