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"Is this!" cried Miss Trafford, in a great fright, lest Lady Nelthorpe should, by speaking first, have the pleasure of the narration. "We were walking, two or three days ago, by the sea-side, picking up shells and talking about the 'Corsair, when a large fierce " "Man!" interrupted I. He would certainly have torn us to pieces if a very tall " "Not so very tall either," said Lady Nelthorpe.
"Is this!" cried Miss Trafford, in a great fright, lest Lady Nelthorpe should, by speaking first, have the pleasure of the narration. "We were walking, two or three days ago, by the sea-side, picking up shells and talking about the "Corsair," when a large fierce " "Man!" interrupted I. He would certainly have torn us to pieces if a very tall " "Not so very tall either," said Lady Nelthorpe.
She could not, according to the doctrine laid down by the highest authority, be convicted till after the conviction of the rebels whom she had harboured. She was, however, set to the bar before either Hickes or Nelthorpe had been tried. It was no easy matter in such a case to obtain a verdict for the crown. The witnesses prevaricated.
Although the men of Hampshire had taken no part in Monmouth's Rebellion, many of the fugitives had fled thither, and two of them, John Hickes, a Non-conformist divine, and Richard Nelthorpe, a lawyer, found refuge in the house of Alice Lisle, where they were eventually discovered.
I went down stairs to breakfast. Miss Trafford and Lady Nelthorpe were in the room talking with great interest, and, on Miss Trafford's part, with still greater vehemence. "So handsome," said Lady Nelthorpe, as I approached. "Are you talking of me?" said I. "Oh, you vanity of vanities!" was the answer.
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