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CHAPTER X
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THE MASTER OF MORLEY COURT AND THE LITTLE GENTLEMAN IN BOTTLE-GREEN—THE BARONET'S DAUGHTER—AND THE TWO CONSPIRATORS1.
Encounters such as those described in the last chapter were, it is needless to say, much more common a hundred and thirty years ago than they are now. In fact, it was unsafe alike in town and country to stir abroad after dark in any district affording wealth and aristocracy sufficient to tempt2 the enterprise of professional gentlemen. If London and its environs, with all their protective advantages, were, nevertheless, so infested3 with desperadoes as to render its very streets and most frequented ways perilous4 to pass through during the hours of night, it is hardly to be wondered at that Dublin, the capital of a rebellious5 and semi-barbarous country—haunted by hungry adventurers, who had lost everything in the revolutionary wars—with a most notoriously ineffective police, and a rash and dissolute aristocracy, with a great deal more money and a great deal less caution than usually fall to the lot of our gentry7 of the present day—should have been pre-eminently8 the scene of midnight violence and adventure. The continued frequency of such occurrences had habituated men to think very lightly of them; and the feeble condition of the civil executive almost uniformly secured the impunity10 of the criminal. We shall not, therefore, weary the reader by inviting11 his attention to the formal investigation12 which was forthwith instituted; it is enough for all purposes to record that, like most other
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complexion
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countenance
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precisely
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petrifying
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vegetate
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imperative
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inflated
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