But you must not
imagine me wrapped in melancholy. 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. Miss Garvice assumed a
quality of neutrality, professed herself almost won over by Ann Veronica’s
example, and the Scotchman decided that if women had a distinctive sphere it
was, at any rate, an enlarging sphere, and no one who believed in the doctrine of
evolution could logically deny the vote to women “ultimately,” however much
they might be disposed to doubt the advisability of its immediate concession. Miss Klegg and the youngest girl made a
vigorous attack on Miss Garvice, who had said she thought women lost
something infinitely precious by mingling in the conflicts of life. "Jack Sheppard," returned the boy, fixing his eyes upon a portrait of the Earl of
Mar. “By Jove!” he
broke out, “one tries to take a serious, sober view. They should never come into contact with politics or economics—or any
of those things. The kissing of the book
struck her as particularly odd, and then the policemen gave their evidence in
staccato jerks and stereotyped phrases. “Is that a challenge?”
She shrugged her shoulders, all ablaze with jewels.
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