Crossword-Solution: CLY 3 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

How the virtuous servant, Cly, was his friend and partner, and was worthy to be; how the watchful eyes of those forgers and false swearers had rested on the prisoner as a victim, because some family affairs in France, he being of French extraction, did require his making those passages across the Channel--though what those affairs were, a consideration for others who were near and dear to him, forbade him, even for his life, to disclose.

Stryver had fitted on the jury, inside out; showing how Barsad and Cly were even a hundred times better than he had thought them, and the prisoner a hundred times worse.

Cly (who I will unreservedly admit, at this distance of time, was a partner of mine) has been dead several years.

But how is this?--what a beautiful sun!--the porter was right in saying that the day would clear up--I will now go to my dingy lodging, lock up my manuscripts, and then take a stroll about the big city.' CHAPTER XXXI The walk--London's Cheape--Street of the Lombards--Strange bridge--Main arch--The roaring gulf--The boat--Cly-faking--A comfort--The book--The blessed woman--No trap.

Throughout the eighteenth century the art of cly-faking held its own, though its reputation paled in the glamour of the highway.