Some big thief has put it the opposite way, because he was afraid of his own turn.

The constitution must be upheld, and, by the Lord! it shall be--at any rate, in East Bruntsea.

West Bruntsea is all a small-pox warren out of my control, and a skewer in my flesh.

And some of my tenants have gone across the line to snap their dirty hands at me." Being once in this cue, Major Hockin went on, not talking to me much, but rather to himself, though expecting me now and then to say "yes;" and this I did when necessary, for his principles of action were beyond all challenge, and the only question was how he carried them out.
He took me to his rampart, which was sure to stop the sea, and at the same time to afford the finest place in all Great Britain for a view of it.

Even an invalid might sit here in perfect shelter from the heaviest gale, and watch such billows as were not to be seen except upon the Major's property.
"The reason of that is quite simple," he said, "and a child may see the force of it.