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Then, with conviction: "'She would get off scot-free. You couldn't prove it, sir. "'I want to look into it myself. "'From the report we've heard I am afraid you couldn't even make a case for reasonable suspicion, sir. "'I'll go on board all the same. "He had made up his mind. Curiosity is the great motive power of hatred and love. What did he expect to find?
He had been mixed up in every plot for the bringing back of King James ever since the Old Chevalier's Father gave up the Ghost at St. Germain's, yet had somehow managed to escape scot-free from Attainder and Confiscation. But Justice had him on the hip at last, and the old Fox was caught.
But even worse than all this was the swift and certain renewal of bankruptcy which so many states were preparing for themselves. Nowhere did the warning come so quickly or so sharply as in New England. Connecticut, indeed, as already observed, came off scot-free. She had issued a little paper money soon after the battle of Lexington, but had stopped it about the time of the surrender of Burgoyne.
I would not like to part with anything that she gave me." "You would prefer to get off scot-free, I suppose?" retorted the clerk, with a sneer. "No; I am willing to leave it in your hands, but I should like the privilege of redeeming it when I have the money." "Very well," said the clerk, who reflected that in all probability Carl would never come back for it. "I'll take it on those conditions."
The valuable lesson was in this way not lost, either to the offender or to the community; the law was enforced, and the young man perhaps saved from a life of wrong-doing, while if he had been let off scot-free, in deference to the influence exerted to that end, he might have gone from bad to worse.
Adela would pass almost scot-free from well-merited punishment; and yet her husband was strong enough to have punished effectively where he deemed it necessary. Molly was puzzled because she was without a clue to the mystery. The fact was that Tim had no wish to punish effectively.
Of course, when it came to the last, he was simply afraid of her, and of the scene she would make him. Bravery has as little room in his soul as honesty or manliness. He would always prefer a back-door exit. Such things excite a man, don't you know? and ruffle the necessary artistic composure." She laughed scornfully. "However, I'm glad to say, he didn't escape scot-free after all.
Grimbal. You're unlikely to come off scot-free if you keep so close." "What do I care? I've been stung by worse than insects." "And I also," answered Clement, with such evident passion that the other grew a little interested. He had evidently pricked a sore point in this moody creature. "Was it a woman stung you?" "No, no; don't heed me." Clement was on guard over himself again.
The crunching on the gravel walk under the windows, stopping suddenly when the feet stepped on to the grass. And the hushed growl of the men's voices. Baxter and the gardener. They had come to see whether the light would go out again behind the yellow blinds as it had gone out last night. If you were a coward; if you had wanted to get off scot-free, it was too late.
This instance of the Murillo is but one of many, and as it illustrates an artifice of tricky ship-owning, it will be well to state why the Murillo will go scot-free, and may audaciously turn up again in British waters disguised by a few coats of paint, exhibiting a fresh figure-head, and bearing a new name in gilt lettering on her stern.
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