“One hardly knows—all the time. I'll write an opera the scene of which shall be laid altogether in Newgate, and the principal character shall be a highmaywan. Endless complications ensue when both sisters return to London. CHAPTER V At dinner the spinsters invited Ruth to sit at their table, an invitation she accepted gratefully. She spied him sitting on his armless black couch, his feet splayed as he stared at his television blankly. “I’ve got—I have to tell you this to make myself clear—a streak of ardent animal in my composition. Hold your hand for a moment. ‘Lucky I have you to keep me from Bedlam, then. 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.
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