Crossword-Solution: SETOFF 6 letters, 37 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

After waiting for a long time in the most cruel uncertainty, into which that barbarous man had plunged me, I learned, at the expiration of eight or ten days, that Madam d'Epinay was setoff, and received from him a second letter.

The only exception to this rule is the action on deposit, against which we have deemed it no less than dishonest to allow any counterclaim to be set up; for if this were permitted persons might be fraudulently prevented from recovering property deposited under the pretence of a setoff.

But as a setoff against this there were stories about him--stories of shady transactions in the gun-running and liquor-smuggling line, and those in charge of the administration of the country held him in no very favourable regard.

Moving is also an expensive business, and not over-agreeable at this season; but against these there is the setoff that Mrs.