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Excerpt from The King's Stockbroker, the Sequel to a Princess of Paris a Novel
The galley slaves are rowing slowly, for their day's work of transporting passengers to the island and towing the ships of the Mississippi squadron has been an awful one, under the burning sun.
The free sailors and soldiers are asleep upon the forecastle, tired with firing salutes and cheering for the Regent and Monseigneur Law.
Upon the center gangplank running through the low waist of the vessel the somnolent boatswain and his mates are not doing their usual ?ogging, and the cadence of the oars is languid.
Upon the high decorated poop at the stern, one or two under officers are asleep.
A little apart, upon this poop deck, is a creature just released from his chains, wearing the cap and camisole of a galley slave. Bending over him, with tears in his eyes, is a young man bedecked with the gorgeous uniform of a general of the army of France.
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