The Traitors' Gate by Avi

Author:Avi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2007-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 26

I Attend the Queen’s Bench Court

Next morning we went to Parliament Street, Palace Yard, where the Insolvent Debtors’ Court functioned as part of the Queen’s Bench Court. It was called Queen’s Bench, explained Mr. Tuckum, because it was as if the Queen herself “in full majesty sat in judgment there, by way of her law. Of course, if we had a king,” he confided, as if it might be a state secret, “it would be the King’s Bench.”

Mother, too distressed to witness the fearful proceedings, had remained abed at the Halfmoon Inn, a shawl over her eyes. My sister stayed with her. While Clarissa insisted it was only to look after our mother, she actually stayed—or so Brigit confided into my ear—in hopes that Mr. Farquatt might appear in the guise of a miraculous angel of mercy.

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