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. We did not
know where to send … in case you died. She saw her life before her robbed of all generous illusions, the
wrappered life unwrappered forever, vistas of dull responses, crises of makebelieve, years of exacting mutual disregard in a misty garden of fine sentiments. Was Ah Cum offering him an opportunity to warn
Spurlock? But should he warn the boy? Why not let him imagine himself
secure? The thunderbolt would be launched soon enough. “You see, dear, one IS passionately anxious for something—what is it? One
wants to be CLEAN. She had
once reconciled in her mind that she was happy as long as
she had him. The prospect of the
gallows would never deter me from taking to the road, if I were so inclined. Attacked by an
infamous and unconstitutional statute, passed in the reign of the late usurper,
William of Orange, (for I may remark that, if the right king had been upon the
throne, that illegal enactment would never have received the royal assent—the
Stuarts—Heaven preserve 'em!—always siding with the debtors); attacked in
this outrageous manner, I repeat, it has been all but 'up' with US! But the
vigorous resistance offered on that memorable occasion by the patriotic
inhabitants of Bermuda to the aggressions of arbitrary power, secured and
established their privileges on a firmer basis than heretofore; and, while their
pusillanimous allies were crushed and annihilated, they became more prosperous
than ever. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen
yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to
send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you
to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to
give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like
his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all
this, I suppose. We understand that, notwithstanding the
serious nature of the man’s injuries, there is every possibility of his recovery. "
Spurlock grew limp in his chair.
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