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From this singular collection Trenchard turned to
regard its possessor, who was standing at a little distance from him, still engaged
in earnest discourse with his attendant, and, as he contemplated his ruthless
countenance, on which duplicity and malignity had set their strongest seals, he
could not help calling to mind all he had heard of Jonathan's perfidiousness to
his employers, and deeply regretting that he had placed himself in the power of
so unscrupulous a miscreant. “Dear friend,” she said, “this is a matter which you must leave to me to do as I
think best. Sir James Thornhill, then, rose. He will wish to have his fears
laid to rest. He's here," returned the skipper, pointing significantly downwards. ‘But tell me this instead. “Perhaps, as I’ve only just arrived,” she remarked, “I might be forgiven if I do
not change my skirt. 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. “Well,” she said, “good-night, father.
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