Crossword-Solution: HEMPSEED 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Hempseed sat there looking dejectedly across the room at the rivulets of moisture which trickled down the window panes.

Hempseed shook his head with an infinity of wisdom, tempered by deeply-rooted mistrust of the British climate and the British Government.

Hempseed was collecting his breath, in order to deliver himself of one of those Scriptural utterances which had made him famous, for it brought down upon her pretty head the full flood of her father’s wrath.

Hempseed, “all I know is—” “All _I_ know is,” loudly asserted mine host, “that there was my friend Peppercorn, ’oo owns the ‘Blue-Faced Boar,’ an’ as true and loyal an Englishman as you’d see in the land.

Hempseed, dolefully, “but what can you ’xpect with this ’ere government favourin’ them rascals over in France, who would murder their king and all their nobility.” “Odd’s life!” retorted Lord Antony; “so they would, honest Hempseed,—at least those they can get hold of, worse luck! But we have got some friends coming here to-night, who at any rate have evaded their clutches.” It almost seemed, when the young man said these words, as if he threw a defiant look towards the quiet strangers in the corner.