... bought at the station, he saw that the African traveller, Sidney Ormond, was to be received by the Mayor and Corporation of a Midland town, and presented with the freedom of the city. The traveller ... any account of it; and I never thought of paying it back, either, until he was gone, and then it worried me.” The messenger put his head into the room, and said the Mayor and the Corporation ... tendered and accepted, Mary Radford still sat there while the rest of the audience slowly filtered out of the large hall. She rose at last, nerving herself for the coming meeting, and went to the...