common-rights

Updated: May 14, 2025

Wiley deprecated the charge of casting blame anywhere. Mr. Fairfax brusquely turned the conversation to matters not personal to the forest-laws, the common-rights and enclosure acts and Bessie kept their pace, which quickened imperceptibly, ruminating in silence her experiences of the day. Mortification mingled with self-ridicule was uppermost.

Holme Lee - The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax