’
‘I do not tell you why,’ the lady uttered flatly. 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. While he thus vented his rage, the door again opened, and Quilt Arnold rushed
into the room, bleeding, and half-dressed. “You must fetch a doctor,” she said. Upon this,
Jack earnestly and eloquently addressed himself to the bench, and besought that
a petition which he had prepared to be laid before the King might be read. "They will kill
me, if they find me, as they would have killed my husband and child. “What are you doing?” He cried. I find you were excessively brave, mon
pauvre. "
"There's some one in the garden at this moment," cried Jack; "I saw a face at the
window. Her recent attitude
towards him was undoubtedly a pose.
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