Old Bedlam
291
IX. Finally she decided upon a
step that had always seemed reasonable to her, but that hitherto she had, from
motives too faint for her to formulate, refrained from taking. ToC
On the night of Friday, the 26th of November, 1703, and at the hour of eleven,
the door of a miserable habitation, situated in an obscure quarter of the Borough
of Southwark, known as the Old Mint, was opened; and a man, with a lantern in
his hand, appeared at the threshold. The pieces fell to the ground in a little
white shower. If it hadn’t been for Professor Russell standing up for him,
they say he would have had to leave. I don’t mind it. Though there is something to be said for your idea of a secret
convent, at least as a hiding place. "It's all over," groaned Wood, "and perhaps it's as well her senses are gone. All the best novels have been
written by women, and yet see how men sneer at the lady novelist still! There’s
only one way to get on for a woman, and that is to please men.
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