We were just standing around shooting the breeze.

[…] King Edward […] raised a considerable Army, and striking in with Edward Baliol, besieged Berwick,

"There is something special in you, something reassuring. Something that soothes the soul. When you are in this room I am no longer aware that it is small, ordinary, suffocating almost like a prison. I feel content,” continued Oriana whose physical and spiritual pain had by now removed any barrier of reticence in the extrinsication of her true feelings for the other.

When the workers rejected these terms, some planters threatened to evict them, and others unroofed cottages and turned estate cattle through the workers’ provision grounds.