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¬the select body was brought before the whole council, they, without, further examination, confirmed it; and then, as innocently as the ble- turs which were the subjects of their decision, went out of the fold in which they had been penned to scatter themselves over the capital, where I will very soon carry you to see them/' ¬" Have you now," said Morven, " any other questions to propose? — I am impatient to hear your opinions/' ¬" Others yet remain. ¬" Is there any fixed interest of money amongst you r and, if there be, arc there any means by which avarice and chicanery can successfully evade the law which creates the limitation ?" — " There are," he replied, " and to such an extent as to render it difficult, if not impossible, for men possessed of the clearest and most unburthened property to borrow the smallest sums for the im- provement of their estates." ¬" In ¬
