There was more to be told, and this was as good a time as any. "I give you one minute for reflection. If you don’t eat humble-pie now you may live to fare
worse later. "
"Since you require it, I must obey," replied Kneebone; "but prepare yourself for a
terrible shock. This gate, called Newgate, "as being latelier builded
than the rest," continued, for upwards of three hundred years, to be used as a
place of imprisonment for felons and trespassers; at the end of which time,
having grown old, ruinous, and "horribly loathsome," it was rebuilt and enlarged
by the executors of the renowned Sir Richard Whittington, the Lord Mayor of
London: whence it afterwards obtained amongst a certain class of students,
whose examinations were conducted with some strictness at the Old Bailey, and
their highest degrees taken at Hyde-park-corner, the appellation of Whittington's
College, or, more briefly, the Whit. Sheila’s own waif of a husband had objected to her
airing the truth, he had even gotten the nerve to bring up
the word divorce. She tended the twins while the Clotilde was in
Sebastian’s private chambers, a place she gave a wide
berth. It would send business elsewhere; and the hotel business in Canton was never so
prosperous that one could afford to lose a single guest.
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