Scaramouche
The Kingmaker
A Romance
by Rafael Sabatini
THE TRAVELLERS – It was suspected of him by many that he had no heart. Repeatedly he allows this suspicion to be perceived in the course of those confessions of his upon which I drew so freely for the story of the first part of his odd life. In the beginning of that story, we see him turning his back, at the dictates of affection, upon an assured career in the service of Privilege. At the end of it we see him forsaking the cause of the people in which he had prospered and, again at the dictates of affection, abandoning the great position won.
