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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. That is why I came to London. She was finally dead, going to Hell. ‘My papa
he does not wish me to marry the man I choose, and thus he places me in the
convent that the nuns may lock me up and I cannot escape. Then enter Mr. CHAPTER XVII
After the Ten Commandments have been spoken, conscience becomes less
something inherent than something acquired. I hid because there was
no other way of seeing you. That is my
way, my dear. The music confused and distracted her, and made
her struggle against a feeling of intoxication. Did she suppose him a possible pretender to her daughter’s
hand? The girl—Dorothée, if memory served—was clearly marriageable, but he
imagined most of these unhappy exiles were all but penniless. ’
‘Secret passage, is it?’ The sergeant seemed to brighten at this. I can’t explain—”
They regarded one another, each blinded to the other. CHAPTER XIX. I have come to take you home; and hereafter
my word will be the law. Somehow or
other his reputation as a hardened and unassailable bachelor had won for him
during the last few years a comparative immunity from attentions on the part of
those women with whom he had been brought into contact.
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