"
"Miscreants!" cried Sheppard, almost driven frantic by the violence of his
emotions; "you're all in league with him. Down on your
marrow-bones, sirrah! Confess your guilt, and Sir Rowland may yet save you
from the gallows. Melusine approached with
caution and sat warily at one end, looking up at him expectantly. But we were both
pledged to secrecy, and I couldn’t reveal my part for fear that I would lose my
place. She
chose to hold her nose. 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. She thrust at him, following, almost spitting him as he
crashed against the altar, rocking the huge candlesticks and the vessels that stood
on it. "
"I dare say no such thing," interposed his better half, authoritatively; "remain
where you are, Sir. Her fingers rested upon his. Lucy looked at the stains on
the threadbare carpeting to distract herself, embarrassed
to her core.
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