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Updated: December 4, 2024

But here Judge Allardyce broke in, to tell Miss Stapylton of the pleasure with which he had nolle prosequied the case against Tom Bellingham. "A son of my old schoolmate, ma'am," the judge explained. "A Bellingham of Assequin. Oh, indiscreet of course but, God bless my soul! when were the Bellinghams anything else? The boy regretted it as much as anybody."

James Branch Cabell - The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations