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But there was a face pressed to the glass. "An hour hence, I shall return with the priest," replied Jonathan, striding towards
the door. From the white beach
the palms ran in serried rows quarter of a mile inland, then began a jungle of
bamboo, gum-tree, sandalwood, plantain, huge fern, and choking grasses. ‘What are the chances,
do you think, of that thing being already cocked?’
‘Probably not even loaded,’ suggested Hilary hopefully. ”
“It would suit me. Many other
expedients occurred to her; but after making several ineffectual attempts to get
into the Mint unobserved, they were all abandoned. 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.
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