I am
afraid there was no leader good enough for you among the Spanish
patriots in the Peninsular war.'
'I do not know,' said Anne; 'I admire Don Jose Palafox for his
defence of Zaragoza, but I know nothing more of him, and there is no
chance of my getting his portrait. I am in great want of Cameron of
Lochiel, or Lord Nithsdale, or Derwentwater; for Claverhouse is the
only Jacobite leader I can find a portrait of, and I am afraid the
blood of the Covenanters is a blot on his escutcheon, a stain on his
white wreath.'
'I am sorry you have nothing to say to bonnie Dundee,' said
Elizabeth, 'for really, between the Whiggery and stupidity of
England, and the wickedness of France, good people are scarce from
Charles the Martyr to George the Third. How I hate that part of
history! Oh! but there were Prince Eugene and the Vicomte de
Turenne.'
'Prince Eugene behaved very well to Marlborough in his adversity,'
said Anne: 'but I do not like people to take affront and abandon
their native country.'
'Oh! but Savoy was more his country than France,' said Elizabeth,
'however, I do not know enough about him to make it worth while to
fight for him.
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