However, my absence did not make much difference.
"It was dreadful after you had gone," said my little mistress.

"We never knew what would happen next.

Father could not keep friends with both sides, and yet he durst not break with either.

The house was fired into from time to time by the Leaguers; and yet he continued to obey their biddings and wink at all the smuggling of arms and secret drilling that went on, which he, as a magistrate, ought to have stopped.

Oh dear, it was hard to know what to wish! And one day he was summoned by some other magistrates to lead a party to capture the crew of a smuggling ship.