13/23 The man is an escaped criminal; and his form of crime is coining false money. He has been discovered at Exeter--he has escaped the officers of justice--and he is now going to begin again here. If _I_ happen to want change, I won't get it in this neighborhood." Lucilla laid herself back in her chair again. I could see that she gave me up, in the matter of Mr.Dubourg, as a person willfully and incorrigibly wrong. |