" Ruth repeated the word, not in the effect of a query, but
ruminantly. ‘Very. ’
He moved to his friend and grasped his hand in a gesture as deliberately
dramatic as the storytelling of mademoiselle. I hope to see the day, when not Southwark alone, but London itself
shall become one Mint,—when all men shall be debtors, and none creditors,—
when imprisonment for debt shall be utterly abolished,—- when highwayrobbery shall be accounted a pleasant pastime, and forgery an accomplishment,
—when Tyburn and its gibbets shall be overthrown,—capital punishments
discontinued,—Newgate, Ludgate, the Gatehouse, and the Compters razed to the
ground,—Bridewell and Clerkenwell destroyed,—the Fleet, the King's Bench,
and the Marshalsea remembered only by name! But, in the mean time, as that
day may possibly be farther off than I anticipate, we are bound to make the most
of the present. She went down, feeling rather than seeing the way. McClintock, coming from below, saw them and went forward. ‘But lay him down. "I hear you plotting with your wicked associates," cried Mrs. Wood, who had merely absented himself to see that a public
breakfast, which he had ordered at the Six Bells for all who chose to partake of
it, was in readiness. Anna——”
Again she stopped him, but this time it was not so easy. “You know I’m old-fashioned, Miss Stanley.
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