"Well!" cried Mrs. She shut the door
behind her. 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. "
"You flatter me," smiled Sir James. "Too late!" shrieked the lady, falling heavily backwards,—"too late!—oh!"
Heedless of her cries, Jonathan passed a handkerchief tightly over her son's
mouth, and forced him out of the room. "I could almost find in my heart to quarrel with Jack Sheppard for occasioning
you so much pain," observed little Winifred Wood, as, having completed her
ministration to the best of her ability, she helped Thames on with his coat. She noted the dank hair on his forehead, the sweat of
revolting nature. And this damning evidence―’ with a
brusque gesture at the portrait ‘―must also be destroyed. “You were born for great things,” he said huskily. "
The clock tinkled ten. But it was now too late to turn
back, and, nerving himself for the shock he expected to encounter, he ventured
after his conductor. She ought to
have written at once and told him exactly what had happened.
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