In consequence of the infamous abuse of its liberties, an act for the entire
suppression of the Old Mint was passed in the ninth year of the reign of George
the First, not many months before the date of the present epoch of this history;
and as, after the destruction of Whitefriars, which took place in the reign of
Charles the Second, owing to the protection afforded by its inmates to the
Levellers and Fifth-monarchy-men, when the inhabitants of Alsatia crossed the
water, and settled themselves in the borough of Southwark,—so now, driven out
of their fastnesses, they again migrated, and recrossing the Thames, settled in
Wapping, in a miserable quarter between Artichoke Lane and Nightingale Lane,
which they termed the New Mint. “It may be true, but it
isn’t quite what I have in mind. Mary is very good, but she is too nervous to be the slightest
protection. Stanley,
putting his hands on the table in the manner rather of a barrister than a solicitor,
and regarding her balefully through his glasses with quite undisguised animosity,
asked, “And may I presume to inquire, then, what you mean to do?—how do
you propose to live?”
“I shall live,” sobbed Ann Veronica. "
"Devilish hard! I'm not allowed a chance," grumbled Austin, as he was left
alone. "Don't harm him," said Jack, carelessly: "he dares not do it. She remained
by the door until the walls of the city swallowed the bobbing lantern. The boss says to me: 'Higg, here's a guy we want
back. The vicomte must be well known to
those high-born who have gone to England. Jack
Sheppard is to me what Thames Darrell is to you—an object of hatred. Annabel
watched her with wide-open, terrified eyes. Most of it had been
incomprehensible to her, or comprehensible in a way that checked further
curiosity, but the figure of Vivien, hard, capable, successful, and bullying, and
ordering about a veritable Teddy in the person of Frank Gardner, appealed to her. The world is like a peppery
horse.
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