The man had favoured him with
a brief nod, but the girl had gone so far as to offer a tiny smile, and a look under
her lashes with which not even Gerald, for all his scant interest in female society,
could fail to be familiar. Undraw the
curtain, love," she added to Thames, "that I may look at you. “If you say so, my pet. She told you
—the truth. "
"And you expect me to believe you after what has passed?"
"I do; and, more than that, I expect you to thank me. Katy had sneered at her for a moment, their eyes
locking. Stopping before each
door, they took up the plates of the locks, examined the ponderous bolts, and
were struck with the utmost astonishment at what they beheld. 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. . “And what is it all about, Veronica?” he asked, with a
deliberate note of irony, looking at her a little quizzically over his glasses. She found herself looking
sheepishly around the bedroom when a sudden tingle of
electricity moved from her groin, fanning out from her
belly. She stared.
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