It precluded the demand of my insurers.

The payment of other debts might be postponed for a month, and my situation be the same as before the adoption of this successless scheme.

Hope and joy were reinstated in my bosom, and I hasted to Thetford's counting-house.
"He received me with an air of gloomy dissatisfaction.

I accounted for his sadness by supposing him averse to communicate information which was less favourable than our wishes had dictated.

He confirmed, with visible reluctance, the news of her capture.