“Miss Pellissier,” Brendon said gently, “I am afraid that some fresh trouble has come to you. Pews had been brought in and set in two rows before the huge table, covered in white cloth, that formed the altar at the far end. The next door neighbor's dog, chained outside, let out a single bark, but was silent as soon as she turned in that direction, instinctively afraid. Her glance, absorbing the gilt letters and their significance, communicated to her poised body a species of paralysis. " Thus urged, the damsels began to raise their voices in loud lamentation. Ramage,” she said, “I can’t—Not now. “My mind is full of confused stuff,” he said at length. She laughed a little bitterly. There lay upon this stand a book bound in limp black leather—the Holy Bible. Attacked by an infamous and unconstitutional statute, passed in the reign of the late usurper, William of Orange, (for I may remark that, if the right king had been upon the throne, that illegal enactment would never have received the royal assent—the Stuarts—Heaven preserve 'em!—always siding with the debtors); attacked in this outrageous manner, I repeat, it has been all but 'up' with US! But the vigorous resistance offered on that memorable occasion by the patriotic inhabitants of Bermuda to the aggressions of arbitrary power, secured and established their privileges on a firmer basis than heretofore; and, while their pusillanimous allies were crushed and annihilated, they became more prosperous than ever.
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