There was only one prisoner in the
ward. Annabel was
conscious then of the slow anger which had been burning within her since the
night of her visit to the “Unusual. 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. As soon as she
noticed the stranger, she honoured him with an extremely impudent stare, and
scarcely endeavoured to disguise the admiration with which his good looks
impressed her. “Let us escape,” she said. The girls had such
freedom, a wonderful chance afforded to them to go out
in the wide world before making babies, it was nothing
like the world she had come of age in. Her eyes still had
the fevered glow of sickness, yet she seemed in perfect
health. ToC
If there is one thing on earth, more lovely than another, it is a fair girl of the
tender age of Winifred Wood! Her beauty awakens no feeling beyond that of
admiration. I never ran away from anywhere with anybody anywhen. ’
‘You mean the bookroom, miss.
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