She felt herself falling, her bile rising in her 61 throat, the cold wind spinning around her like vertigo. At the bottom of her heart she was not a bit afraid of Ramage. "Don't mention it," returned Wood, in the conciliatory tone of one who admits he has been in the wrong; "your explanation is perfectly satisfactory. She sat herself upon the bed. ’ ‘Pah! Am I a fool? Have you not this moment past said how he did not?’ Agitation sent her to her feet. She had taken care he should have this momentous talk with her on a garden-seat commanded by the windows of the house. 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. ‘Who’d believe me? And I’d have to tell my part in it all, too. Gwen—I saw Gwen the other day, and the paint’s thicker than ever. “I wonder if you give me a thought. ‘The so-called Valade is an evil person, and should certainly be got rid of in the manner you describe. At one moment, it seemed as if the flying bark was about to put to shore.
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