All the best novels have been written by women, and yet see how men sneer at the lady novelist still! There’s only one way to get on for a woman, and that is to please men. So long as he lived, Spurlock knew that in fancy he would be reconstructing that scene between himself and Ruth's father. She was not squeamish—although the sight of the sergeant’s ominous preparations had severely tried her fortitude—but Kimble’s white face plagued her conscience. The very carts and vans and cabs that Wellington Street poured out incessantly upon the bridge seemed ripe and good in her eyes. Between herself and yonder evil mind she had the strongest buckler God could give—love. She knew blood was rushing to his face and other places as well. She had flung away from her father’s support with the finest assumption of personal independence. 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. "I do," replied Jack, carelessly. ’ The gentleness in his voice nearly overset her. It was after all a momentary affair. Don’t, don’t say anything now, not anything. “What can one say?” she exclaimed. The vault, in which Sir Rowland found himself, resembled in some measure the cabin of a ship.
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