Because she felt herself unable to advocate in plain terms a thorough shutting up of her daughter,a protecting of her from the temptation of sin by absolute and prolonged sequestration,therefore she equivocated with him, pretending to think that he was desirous of sending his girl out to have her hair braided and herself arrayed in gold and pearls.

A few ducks are usually seen sailing on the lake, apparently more for pleasure than anything else, and the ouzels at the head of the rapids sing always; while robins, grosbeaks, and the Douglas squirrels are busy in the groves, making delightful company, and intensifying the feeling of grateful sequestration without ruffling the deep, hushed calm and peace.

There was great mention of bogus bonds, bad investments, liabilities and assets and personal estates, and of a thing called an official assigneewhatever that isvoluntary sequestration, and a jargon of such terms that were enough to mither a Barcoo lawyer.

But we will now turn away from these horrible scenes, and consider the several methods of penal sequestration and prison arrangements.

After a week passed in the doctor's home, he would sometimes suppose that the sweet sequestration had been but forty-eight hours long, at others that nearly a month had flitted by.

This "Figures of Earth" appeared immediately following, and during the temporary sequestration of, "Jurgen."