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Most happily I bethought me of Miss Plinlimmon's verses in my Testament now alas! left in the Trapps' cottage and lost to me; and recited them as bravely as I could. "Ah!" sighed Mrs. Pengelly, "there's many a true word spoken in jest. 'Where shall we be in ten years' time? Where indeed?" "Here," her husband cheerfully suggested, with his mouth full. "Hush, O.P.! You never buried a first."
It was the latter who gravely announced to Captain Trapps, the Bathurst magistrate, the discovery of `precious stones' on his location; and which the angry gentleman, jealous of the reserved rights of Government, found, on further inquiry, were only `precious big ones! The rich valley of Lushington afforded a resting-place to Dyason's party.
"There is a horrid woman named Trapps, or Grapps, or Crapps, or something, that has fastened herself upon cousin Anna, and is mind-curing her, or Christian-sciencing her, or fooling her in some way; but Mrs. Frostwinch is too well-bred really to have any sympathy with anything so vulgar. She takes to it in desperation; but she really detests the whole thing."
For the good of the Soveraign and People, cannot be separated. It is a weak Soveraign, that has weak Subjects; and a weak People, whose Soveraign wanteth Power to rule them at his will. Unnecessary Lawes are not good Lawes; but trapps for Mony: which where the right of Soveraign Power is acknowledged, are superfluous; and where it is not acknowledged, unsufficient to defend the People.
An odd fancy took me to watch if he stirred again while I counted a hundred. He did not, and I shifted my gaze to find Miss Plinlimmon coming towards me unescorted. Archibald had disappeared. Her eyes were red, and her voice trembled a little. "And now," said she, "that's enough of my affairs, please God!" She began to put questions about the Trapps.
I think it unfair to compel children to a discipline you cannot endure with them." She parted with me under the moonlit Citadel, at the head of a by-lane leading to the Trapps' cottage. "I shall not write often, or see you," she said.
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