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Before the legislature took any effective action in protecting the emigrants who landed at New York, many philanthropic and benevolent societies were formed for that purpose. Of those societies one Hiram Huested gave the following testimony on oath: "I am sure, there is as much iniquity amongst the emigrant societies as there is amongst the runners."
I was assured of this by the way Moffat failed to meet Arthur's eye, as he pressed on hastily, and in a way to forestall all opposition. "There are two ways of leaving your house for the city. Which way did you take?" "The shortest. I went through my neighbour's grounds to Huested Street." "Immediately?" "As soon as I could. I don't know what you mean by immediately."
He found him on watch in the upper hall, and the man, Clarke, below. He had a word with the former: "What is the purpose of the little door in the wall back of the stable?" "It connects these grounds with those of the Fultons. The Fultons live on Huested Street." "Are the two families intimate?" "Very. Mr. Cumberland is sweet on the young lady there. She was at the funeral to-day.
The only change I now allowed myself was an occasional midnight stroll up Huested Street. This was as near as I dared approach Carmel's windows. I feared some watchful police spy. Perhaps I feared my own hardly-to-be-restrained longings. Mr.
He was walking south and on the best lighted and most beautiful street in town, but his eyes were forever seeking a break in the long line of fence which marked off the grounds of a seemingly interminable stretch of neighbouring mansions, and when a corner was at last reached, he dashed around it and took a straight course for Huested Street, down which he passed with quickened steps and an air of growing assurance.
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