”
“That is provokingly indefinite,” he answered, a little ruefully. “Hotel Ritz!”
Chapter XXXI
ANNA’S TEA PARTY
“I suppose you haven’t the least idea who I am,” Lady Lescelles said, as she
settled herself in Anna’s most comfortable chair. “I think, aunt,” she said, “you might trust to my self-respect to keep me
out of that. Before morning, unless, we can
effect an escape, you'll be kidnapped, or murdered, and your disappearance
attributed to the negligence of the constable. 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. “He is very kind, Anna, really, and not half such
a prig as he seems. “Well, my girl, I wish you had thought
about all these things before these bothers began. The light touch of Ah Cum's hand upon her arm broke the thread of retrospective
thought; and her gray eyes began to register again the things she saw.
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