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They were eating quails when they returned to the topic of love. You'll find those young ladies extremely agreeable acquaintances. 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. ‘I do not wish to
hear any more reasons so foolish, so do not trouble to think of them. "
Ah Cum lent an ear covertly. "In favour of my son. He,
however, made no remark at the time, but instantly prepared to set out. "
"You'd better," replied Quilt. Will you leave us for a
few minutes?"
"You are not going to be harsh?"
"I wish to talk about the future. But I will never—never return. As to Thames, though deeply and painfully affected by the
horrible occurrence that had marked his return to his old friends, he was yet able
to control his feelings, and devote himself to the alleviation of the distress of the
more immediate sufferers by the calamity. We have known men who have come here for no other
purpose than to prove their unassailable virtue, who have strode into the arena of
temptation, waving the—the what is it—the white flower of a blameless life,
only to exchange it with marvellous facility for the violets of the Parisienne.
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