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Clementina

CHAPTER XV
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Wogan opened the door and shook Gaydon by the shoulder.
"Let us try if we can get stronger horses here," said he, and he got out.

Gaydon woke up with surprising alacrity.
"I must have fallen asleep," said he.

"I beseech your Highness's forgiveness; I have slept this long while." It was no business of his if Wogan chose to attribute his own escape from Newgate as an exploit of the King's.

The story was a familiar one at Bologna, whither they were hurrying; it was sufficiently known that Charles Wogan was its hero.

All this was Wogan's business, not Gaydon's.


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