“I have noticed,” he said, “that you seem to delight in taking a topsy-turvy view
of life. Outside in the hall he paused and thoughtfully stroked his smooth blue chin. And mind he
doesn't stir out of your sight, on any pretence whatever, till I call. "Go to lunch," he ordered Ruth. On
a stool eight feet high sat a small boy in a faded blue cotton, his face like that of
young Buddha. You said that it would bring trouble. You will be wearing your travelling dress, and no doubt
you would prefer it. 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. She was as lovely in the spirit as in
the flesh. ‘Marry an Englishman! Which Englishman?’
Melusine shrugged. Wild horses wouldn’t drag it out of me, even I knew
anything, which I don’t. "I'm glad to find I'm right. Your career at
the bar had given you a command of language, also a self-control not vouchsafed
to us ordinary mortals. His breakfast despatched, which he ate with a wolfish appetite, he
walked over to Newgate, chuckling as he went at the consternation which his
appearance would create amongst the turnkeys.
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