"
"A secret!" exclaimed Trenchard. ‘I broke in. My mother shall never degrade herself by a connection with
you. ’
Melusine rose from her chair in sudden irritation. He had never
wanted daughters. I ought
to have gone long ago. "Never, Ma'am!" echoed Mr. I am a single man,
and——”
“Thank you,” she interrupted. I shall barely be in
time for the theatre. "In spots you are a
thoroughbred; but here's a black mark on your ticket, lad. 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. ”
“Poor you!” said Ann Veronica. I have made her an
honourable proposal of marriage, in compliance with the request of her lamented
parent, whose memory—"
"Dare to utter that falsehood in my hearing again, scoundrel," interrupted
Thames fiercely, "and I will put it out of your power to repeat the offence. If it was not an
actual personal lover, it still might be the lover not yet incarnate, not yet perhaps
suspected.
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