“I’ve been thinking—all
the afternoon. It was in
fact the first embrace of motherhood she had ever known. Then she raised the glass nearer to her lips. You can go for a walk with Lucy. Your mother, for instance,
couldn’t. ‘You imbecile. She
did most urgently desire to save her face in Morningside Park, and for long hours
she could think of no way of putting it that would not be in the nature of
unconditional admission of defeat. 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. It was such an
unexpected stroke of fortune. "But you do agitate me
so much. It was my destiny to have her. This morning I met him at the dock, and he wouldn't
take the other fifty. Perhaps it was just as well there was no inherited memory.
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