7/9 "As for being shut out of Boston harbor hereafter, I do not fear that much. The reign of the Saints is nearly over. Do you not see that the Quakers are back, and the Baptists, and the prayer-book men, as they call the Episcopalians!--and they do not touch them, though they would whip the whole of them out of the Province, at the cart's tail, if they dared. "Have the proper papers drawn up, and I will sign them." "No, there shall be no papers between you and me," rejoined the Captain stoutly. "I hate these lawyers' pledges. |