Inger came back in a state of dull resignation; they had not found it necessary to keep her in confinement meantime.

Candid explanations were immediately given and assurances that, reserving our claims in that quarter as a subject of discussion and arrangement with Spain, no act was meditated in the meantime inconsistent with the peace and friendship existing between the two nations, and that conformably to these intentions would be the execution of the law.

It was universally known that a great poem of Wordsworth's was reserved for posthumous publication, and kept under lock and key meantime.