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The greatest bother about romance in real life is that it generally brings one outside the law -- either the written or the unwritten law. The strangest thing about the romance of the _Lorna Doone_ and her crew was the fact that it was only now, clear of land, successful and unpursued, that the law was beginning to trouble them.
The worry came to Martia first, before Hyalos had quite vanished from sight astern.