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No . Had he ever been tried for any criminal offence ? No . Then here was the Queen 's shilling , and he was enlisted to serve Her Majesty for the term of twenty years , and was now to report himself to the doctor , and after passing his examination , would be required to present himself at noon to be sworn in before the Colonel , and failing so to present himself , he would be liable to arrest and imprisonment as a rogue and vagabond . ` So now the trick is done , ' said Volnay , ` and you ca n't undo it . At another time you could have bought out for thirty pounds ; but we shall be off to Varna in a week or two , and the Queen wo n't spare a man she has once laid hands on for love or money until we have got through the little brush that 's coming with old Nick and his merry men . ' There was no sleep in the grey-stone house on the Beacon Hill , on that eventful night on which Polson Jervase left his home , for anybody except the domestics , who were ignorant of the blow which had fallen on the household .