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Chase thriller as unjustly-framed Caleb tries to clear his name of theft and evade a murderer who wants to silence him. Interesting view of its time rather than exciting.

"Indeed, had it been otherwise, it is not probable that it would have made any effectual impression upon him; as he was always accustomed to consider women as made for the recreation of the men, and to exclaim against the weakness of people who taught them to imagine they were to judge for themselves."

Attitude of a bad guy in 1794

"Fraught with these prepossessions, the civilities that had once or twice occurred in the bustle of a public circle, the restoring her fan which she had dropped, or the disembarrassing her of an empty tea-cup, made her heart palpitate, and gave birth to the wildest chimeras in her deluded imagination."

I need someone to disembarrass me of empty tea or coffee cups.

Here he found considerable difficulty in appeasing the indignation of Lady Lucretia. His ideas of honour would by no means allow him to win her to his purpose by disclosing the cartel he had received; otherwise that disclosure would immediately have operated as the strongest motive that could have been offered to this disdainful beauty.

2. A challenge to single combat. http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/cartel

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"This is society. This is the object, the distribution of justice, which is the end of human reason. For this the sages have toiled, and the midnight oil has been wasted. This!"