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thee, my good young master!” return-
ed the countryman, “ why, what think
you will they have to say to him at the
White Horse? Why, young man,
they would not even look at him there.”

“ What, not when he has fought
for his King and Country ? ” exclaimed
Charles, colouring highly ; “and when
he has been wounded, and bled for
them, and has lost a limb, too, in their
service ?”

“No matter for that,” cried the
peasant, “itis not what he has lost,
but what he has got, that must recom-
mend him there; and if he has no
rino, however sick or sorry, they'll be
no room for him there.”

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