about the age you are now. And the thing is, you look startlingly like him.” “So I’ve been told.” Father Ambrose bent to pick up his basket. “You’ve heard the Bourbons are trying to kill him?” “McClellan?” Sebastian’s voice sounded leaden, even to his own ears. “No; I hadn’t heard.” The priest nodded. “Any general who served under Napoléon and hasn’t rushed to fawn over the Bourbons is basically fair game.” “Except that McClellan didn’t rally to Napoléon during the Hundred Days; he stayed in Vienna.” “He did. But since when did the Bourbons allow technicalities to stop them? McClellan’s name
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