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Mary Anerley

CHAPTER XV
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The men in the white boat will want to commit him, and the men in the black boat are his friends, no doubt, coming for a habeas corpus--" "My dear, what nonsense you do talk! What has a simple justice of the peace--" "Never mind that, papa; my facts are sound--sounder than yours about smuggling, I fear.

But do hurry in, and get up the law.

I will go and lock both gates, to give you more time." "Do nothing of the kind, Janetta.

A magistrate should be accessible always; and how can I get up the law, without knowing what it is to be about--or even a clerk to help me?
And perhaps they are not coming here at all.

They may be only landing their prisoner." "If that were it, they would not be coming so, but rowing toward the proper place, Bridlington Quay, where their station-house is.


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