This person presented the following case:--According to his calculations, the wrong had been committed precisely sixty-three years, and twenty-six days, and two-thirds of a day ago.

For the whole of that long period Leaplow had been troubled with this vexatious question, which had hung like a cloud over the otherwise unimpaired brightness of her political landscape.

It was time to get rid of it.

The sum stipulated was just twenty-five millions, to be paid in twenty-five annual instalments, of a million each.

Now, he proposed to reduce the instalments to one-half the number, but in no way to change the sum.
That point ought to be considered as irrevocably settled.