”
A sudden sense of the gravity of this thing came home to Anna. ” Lucy
commented, dismayed. ”
“And I have been dreaming and thinking—”
“I am frightfully sorry. A post-chaise seen in the road first
alarmed us. “It is
nothing of any importance. ’
‘Of course you weren’t there,’ snapped Hilary. Amid this varied throng,—varied in appearance, but alike in character,—one
object alone, we have said, rivetted Mrs. "I'll be back in a minute. ”
Sebastian exclaimed as her husband nodded his head
slowly. “Where were you?”
He inquired, rubbing her
shoulders. "
"What's he know about copra and native talk?"
"Nothing, probably; but I'll wager he'll pick it all up fast enough. The neighbouring houses were tenanted by the lowest order of
insolvent traders, thieves, mendicants, and other worthless and nefarious
characters, who fled thither to escape from their creditors, or to avoid the
punishment due to their different offenses; for we may observe that the Old
Mint, although it had been divested of some of its privileges as a sanctuary by a
recent statute passed in the reign of William the Third, still presented a safe
asylum to the debtor, and even continued to do so until the middle of the reign of
George the First, when the crying nature of the evil called loudly for a remedy,
and another and more sweeping enactment entirely took away its immunities.
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