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Foreword
This is the story which Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart., told to His Royal highness that evening in the Assembly Rooms at Bath.
The talk was of the recent events in France, the astounding fall of Robespierre: the change in the whole aspect of the unfortunate country: and His Royal Highness expressed his opinion that among all those men who had made and fostered the Revolution, there was not one who was anything but a scoundrel, a reprobate, a murderer, and worker of iniquity.
Sir Percy then remarked: "I would not say that, sir. I have known men—"
"You, Blakeney?" His Royal Highness broke in, with an incredulous laugh.
"Even I, sir. May I tell you of one, at least, whose career I happened to follow with great interest?"
And that is how the story came to be told.
