”
“I will think of it,” she promised. Her complexion was wan and faded,
except where it was tinged by a slight hectic flush, that made the want of colour
more palpable; her eyes were large and black, but heavy and lustreless; her
cheeks sunken; her frame emaciated; her dark hair thickly scattered with gray. It was a clear, lovely, October morning. 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. ‘Don’t put me at the necessity of
marrying the abominable little wretch. "I'll go to her directly," said Wood, bustling towards the door. An action which gave Gerald
furiously to think. “Julian, I don’t know how to put this. “If you attempted such a thing it
would be in order that I should smack you hard with the palm of my hand upon
the cheek. “You do not even know what you are talking about.
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