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We were ushered into the drawing-room, and, to my delight, upon her entrance, I perceived that it was the same beautiful person in whose ears I had seen the coral and gold ear-rings matching the necklace belonging to Fleta. I considered it better to allow Mr Masterton to break the subject. "You are, madam, the widow of the late Sir William de Clare." The lady bowed.
I took this precaution, that should I be in poverty myself, at all events Fleta might be provided in clothes and schooling for three years at least. The poor child wept bitterly at the separation, and I could with difficulty detach her little arms from my neck, and I felt when I left her as if I had parted with the only valuable object to me on earth.
But Glanvill adopted the nomenclature, and later writers began to draw conclusions from it. The author of Fleta, a writer by no means always intelligent in following and adopting his predecessors' use of the Roman law, /1/ says that to raise a debt there must be not only a certain thing promised, but a certain thing promised in return. /2/
This is a strange world who would have imagined that, in little Fleta, I was picking up a wife for a man whose life I nearly took away? I will ask my governor for his carriage to-morrow, and will call and take you up at your lodgings at two o'clock, if that hour will suit you. I will tell you all that has passed since I absconded, when we are at Lady de Clare's; one story will do for all."
The next day I went to the banker's, drew out 150 pounds and set off with Timothy for . Fleta threw herself into my arms, and sobbed with joy.
Even little Fleta had to practise occasionally, as we were preparing for an expedition.
"Not if you do not wish it, Fleta: as long as I can support you I will that is, if you would like to live with me in preference to Melchior." "If I would like, Japhet! you must know I would like, who has been so kind to me as you? Don't leave me, Japhet." "I will not, Fleta; but on condition that you promise to be guided by me, and to do all I wish."
In a few minutes Lady de Clare was sufficiently recovered to hear the outline of our history; and as soon as it was over, she insisted upon immediately going with us to the school where Fleta was domiciled, as she could ascertain, by several marks known but to a nurse or mother, if more evidence was required, whether Fleta was her child or not.
There was so much continued bustle and excitement in our peculiar profession, that a little quiet was delightful; and I never felt more happy than when Fleta threw herself into my arms, and Nattee came forward with her usual dignity and grace, but with more than usual condescendence and kindness, bidding me welcome home. Home alas! it was never meant for my home, or poor Fleta's and that I felt.
Fleta, L 1. c. 37. says, 'Pecorantes et Sodomise in terra, vivi confodiantur. The Mirror makes it treason. Bestiality can never make any progress; it cannot therefore be injurious to society in any great degree, which is the true measure of criminality in foro cirili, and will ever be properly and severely punished, by universal derision. It may, therefore, be omitted.
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