’ He reddened a little, and shuffled his feet. ‘But for my dowry, what else? One cannot expect that an Englishman will marry any jeune demoiselle without a dowry. “You are very stupid, Anna,” she said. The house will be well rid of him, for a more idle, good-for-nothing reprobate never crossed its threshold. She glanced at the soft-ticking clock with the exposed brass pendulum upon the white marble mantel, and made a rapid calculation. “No thanks, Cathy. This horrible piece of deformity, who acted as drawer and cellarman, and was a constant butt to the small wits of the jail, was nicknamed the Black Dog of Newgate. A native of Manchester, he was the son of Kenelm Kneebone, a staunch Catholic, and a sergeant of dragoons, who lost his legs and his life while fighting for James the Second at the battle of the Boyne, and who had little to bequeath his son except his laurels and his loyalty to the house of Stuart.
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