He won’t have menservants inside the house, and his collection of carriages
is only fit for a museum—where most of his friends ought to be, by-the-bye. Ah!"
he exclaimed, as his eye fell upon a small knob in the wall, "there's the spring!"
He touched it, and the door flew open. "Ah, I see it all!" he cried, with a quick
glance. Once she had asked him: "Are you my father?"
He had answered: "I am. 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. ”
She turned a firelit face to her husband. ’
So that was it. But whenever the storm grew dangerous,
either McClintock or Spurlock broke into saving laughter. “I had lunch very late to-day,
and I did not get home in time for dinner. You’re neither of you any longer under arrest. The sky periodically
pummeled her with hail pellets as she would pass through
the deserted intersections.
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