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"Never-imagined joy in England, and fame to Vernon, when the news came: 'Took it with Six Ships, cry they; 'the scurvy Ministry, who had heard him, in the fire of Parliamentary debate, say Six, would grant him no more: invincible Vernon! Nay, next Year, I see, 'London was illuminated on the Anniversary of Porto-Bello: day settled in permanence as one of the High-tides of the Calendar, it would appear.
It is always more or less dangerous there, but it is specially dangerous to-day. I never like these high-tides; children and nursemaids are so apt to forget all about them." Miss Tredgold muttered something conventional. Pauline suddenly sat down on a chair. "How white you are, dear!" said Miss Tredgold.
And though these folks whereunto we shall come, are, some of them, Christian men by name, and have amongst them priests and religious; yet are they wild men of manners, and many heathen customs abide amongst them; as swearing on the altars of devils, and eating horse-flesh at the High-tides, and spell-raising more than enough, and such like things, even to the reddening of the doom-rings with the blood of men and of women, yea, and of babes: from such things their priests cannot withhold them.
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