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Updated: July 17, 2025
"If I am reconducted to my chamber by this steel-clad spectre and allowed to sleep undisturbed until morning, I promise never to relate this adventure while any harm can happen to you by my telling it." 'To this the coiners after consultation agreed. He was led back to bed, and next morning ridiculed all spectral stories to his officers.
But Alice didn't half like it and as she is a girl I do not blame her. Indeed, I thought myself at first that perhaps it would be better to retire for the present, and return later with a strongly armed force. 'It's not burglars, Alice whispered; 'the mysterious stranger was bringing things in, not taking them out. They must be coiners and oh, Oswald! don't let's!
"Well, sir, it's very clever. There's an old oak near the wall, and the trunk is hollow. All anyone has to do is to climb up through the trunk by means of stairs and drop over the wall. The coiners were making for that when we captured them." "Humph! Have that place watched. Maraquito may come here to-night after all. It is now one o'clock." "I don't think she'll come, Mr. Jennings.
He felt that it would be impossible to sit down and talk of trivial things as he would have to do in the presence of Le Beau when he had made such a discovery. The case was beginning to take shape. "Can Maraquito have anything to do with the coiners?" he asked himself. "She is English a Jewess Saul is a Jewish name. Can she be of that family?
Two miserable hermits and false coiners, who had some secret correspondence with M. de Vendome, did, upon some discontent or other, accuse him very falsely of having proposed to them to assassinate the Cardinal, and to give the more weight to their depositions they named all those they thought notorious in that country; Montresor and M. Barillon were of the number.
Were his house a den of thieves, were Vaux a cave of coiners or robbers, his home is sacred, his palace is inviolable, since his wife is living in it; and that is an asylum which even executioners would not dare to violate." La Valliere paused, and was silent.
Leaving behind him the huts abandoned by the coiners, he continued all night and all day his solitary flight. At last, almost ready to expire with hunger, thirst, and fatigue, and not knowing if God was still far from him, he came to a silent city which extended from right to left, and stretched away till it was lost in the blue horizon.
Others found it necessary to purchase the connivance of the agents of the government by presents of hogsheads of wine, and of gloves stuffed with guineas. It was impossible for the separatists to pray together without precautions such as are employed by coiners and receivers of stolen goods. The places of meeting were frequently changed.
About twenty years since, as far as my recollection serves, there was along the frontier an organized gang of coiners, forgers, smugglers, and other malefactors, whose operations were conducted on a scale not inferior to what is here described. The chief of the party was one Richard Mendham a carpenter, who rose to opulence, although ignorant even of the arts of reading and writing.
Turn up his face and gaze on him now; he will never terrify us again, unless there be truth in ghosts!" Murmuring and tremulous the coiners scrambled on the table and examined the dead man.
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