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Let every free man who reckoneth his liberty to stand in doing what he please, consider well these points, and I daresay he shall then find his liberty much less than he took it for before. And yet have I left untouched the bondage that almost every man is in who boasteth himself for free the bondage, I mean, of sin.

After this the ship was put on her course, and we stood on, plunging away into the heavy seas which rose around us, and threatened every instant to break on board the brig. The passengers looked, and, I daresay, felt very melancholy at the accident, for young Sam especially, was liked by them, and on that account Mr Duncan had taken him on his expedition.

"But if I never had had them, like Reine Gaythorne, and did not know anything about them, I daresay I could manage to amuse myself in the world." This was the first mention of the name of Reine Gaythorne in the Wavertree school-room, and it was certainly far from the last. Mrs.

"It is tiring and I daresay we shall need all our strength to-night." I looked at her speechless. Why could she not take No for an answer? As usual she read my thought and replied to it. "Why did not Adam refuse the apple that Eve offered him?" she inquired musingly.

In spite of her flight from him he could not flatter himself that he had made any impression on her nerves. Whereas her beauty and her provocative way were beginning to tell deeply on his own. "Well, I daresay!" His laugh was as frank as her question. "I'm generally in straits." "Why don't you do some work, and earn money?" she asked him, frowning. "Frankly because I dislike work."

"'Well, my lad, I daresay the skipper will do that, but as we're bound for the coast of Chili from Hamburg, and ain't likely to be there for about five months, you've got, as I said, a long voyage before you. If the weather had been fine the skipper might have spoken some ship in the Channel, and put you on board, but before the gale's blown out we shall be hundreds of miles at sea.

"Their father used not to know that I existed. Janet, I don't care for Nora to see much of them. You I can trust; but she is a bit of a featherbrain, and one never knows what may happen. Look to it." "I will, father." "And I will call on Mrs. Brand and have a chat with her. Poor soul! I daresay she has suffered. Still that does not make her a fit companion for my girls."

"It's a sad disappointment, I daresay," he said, "but never mind, my pet, you'll do better next time, I've no doubt. Or if you don't, it doesn't much matter. Other people have fancied themselves poets, and have been deceived, before to-day."

"Well, just as you arrived then, so some one else arrived once long ago, and I was grateful to him, as indeed I am grateful to you." Bobby was trying to find something to say, but Madame de Corantin continued "I was glad of protection going to America. It is not pleasant for a woman to have to travel alone. I daresay some people would have misunderstood the position.

It might have been wide open, sir, but that did not grant you any special privileges." "I can only ask your pardon, Miss Crown, and depart in disgrace," said he, quite humbly. As he started down the path, he paused to add: "I did not know you had returned. I daresay I should have been less venturesome had I known you were in the neighbourhood." The thinly veiled sarcasm did not escape her.