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Gerald instantly took her arm and guided her back to her
chair. How
did you get into this house?’
He shrugged. The neighbouring houses were tenanted by the lowest order of
insolvent traders, thieves, mendicants, and other worthless and nefarious
characters, who fled thither to escape from their creditors, or to avoid the
punishment due to their different offenses; for we may observe that the Old
Mint, although it had been divested of some of its privileges as a sanctuary by a
recent statute passed in the reign of William the Third, still presented a safe
asylum to the debtor, and even continued to do so until the middle of the reign of
George the First, when the crying nature of the evil called loudly for a remedy,
and another and more sweeping enactment entirely took away its immunities. It was rude and disrespectful to raise her eyes
to him, her mother had warned. His inclinations prompted him most
decidedly to take the vacant chair. And there was no intimation whatever that the blinds would
ever go up or the windows or doors be opened, or the chandeliers, that seemed to
promise such a blaze of fire, unveiled and furnished and lit. Then came
the great day. All sorts of battered tramps, junks and riff-raff of the seas
trailed in and out. Even this man had accepted
her for “Alcide” without a moment’s question. This forthright dame was so excited,
she could not keep still, but paced about the parlour much as Melusine had done
earlier. Once they were on the move, Kimble seemed to find strength from
somewhere. “You go home and think of all this,” he said, “and talk about it to-morrow. ”
“You would perhaps be so good as to allow one of my men to accompany you
and see you settled,” Mr.
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