“Rhea will
return soon. It may here be mentioned that this gate,
destined to bequeath its name—a name, which has since acquired a terrible
significance,—to every successive structure erected upon its site, was granted, in
1400, by charter by Henry the Sixth to the citizens of London, in return for their
royal services, and thenceforth became the common jail to that city and the
county of Middlesex. You won’t want to be late the first evening, and it’s ten
minutes past seven now. ‘I know what it means, numbskull! Didn’t
spend years in the confounded country without picking up some of their infernal
tongue. ” Lucy spat. Families had seen their lands seized, their
chateaux ransacked or burned, and those unlucky enough to have failed to
anticipate disaster, had been murdered or dragged away to gaol. “I expected to
stay with a relation, but I found that their arrangements did not allow of it. ”
Her hands fell to her side. “It is a night of endings,” she murmured to herself. She herself, and one other there, recognized the interposition
of something akin to tragedy.
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