ONE:"Stopyou're spoiling my h?adge!"There was another silence. Then suddenly Reuben went to the door and opened it.
TWO:The Squire had called it blackmail and made a terrible fuss about it, but from the first the issues had been in Reuben's hands. A public scandal, the appearance of Flightshot's heir before the county magistrates on the charge of shooting a cow in a drunken frolic, was simply not to be contemplated; the only son of the Manor must not be sacrificed to make a rustic holiday. After all, ever since the Inclosure the Fair had been merely a matter of toleration; and as Backfield pointed out, it could easily go elsewhereto the big Tillingham[Pg 455] meadow outside Rye, for instance, where the wild beast shows pitched when they came. All things considered, resistance was not worth while, and Flightshot made its last capitulation to Odiam."It is not justice, Sir Robert Skipwith," said he, "to wrest the unfortunate from the merciful interposition of the churchit is not justice, but a high contempt of supreme law, to set at nought the merciful commands of the sovereignit is not justice to usurp a power that belongs not to you, in order to crush a friendless womanit is not justice to set the opinions of an individual against the sacred authority of God's church. The church alone, I repeat, has power to judge in cases where the soul is concerned, as in heresy and witchcraft."
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