If I had not forced you both to follow me out of England on the first of April, you would have been made State prisoners on the second.

What do you say to my conduct now ?" "Wait, Percy, before you answer him," Mr.Bowmore interposed.

"He is ready enough at excusing himself.

But, observe--he hasn't a word to say in justification of my daughter's readiness to run away with him." "Have you quite done ?" Bervie asked, as quietly as ever.
Mr.Bowmore reserved the right of all others which he most prized, the right of using his tongue.

"For the present," he answered in his loftiest manner, "I have done." Bervie proceeded: "Your daughter consented to run away with me, because I took her to my father's house, and prevailed upon him to trust her with the secret of the coming arrests.