Seth, Governor of Bellingham

Esther Prine was caught out of a shelter in the presence of these thousand witnesses. Seth, Governor Bellingham himself, with four sergeants of artist's chair, bearing Albert as a guard of honour. He wore a dark feather in his head, a wardrobe embroidery on his cloak, and a black velvet tunic beneath. Gentlemen advanced in years, with a high experience written in his wrinkles. They were doubtless good men, just and sage. But out of all human family, it would not have been easy to select same number of wise and virtuous persons who should be less capable of sitting in judgment on an earring woman's heart.

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