Passing at a glance over the whole of the intervening period; leaving in the
words of the poet,
—The growth untried
Of that wide gap—
we shall resume our narrative at the beginning of June, 1715. The neighbouring houses were tenanted by the lowest order of
insolvent traders, thieves, mendicants, and other worthless and nefarious
characters, who fled thither to escape from their creditors, or to avoid the
punishment due to their different offenses; for we may observe that the Old
Mint, although it had been divested of some of its privileges as a sanctuary by a
recent statute passed in the reign of William the Third, still presented a safe
asylum to the debtor, and even continued to do so until the middle of the reign of
George the First, when the crying nature of the evil called loudly for a remedy,
and another and more sweeping enactment entirely took away its immunities. “You asked me in to tea,” he protested. You have not considered the advantages. ”
Part 5
One afternoon, while everything was still, the wardress heard her cry out
suddenly and alarmingly, and with great and unmistakable passion, “Why in the
name of goodness did I burn that twenty pounds?”
Part 6
She sat regarding her dinner. The warm September sun fell strongly on this part of the
grounds, uninterrupted by trees, its light bouncing off the glass in the mansion’s
walls. “For seven years,” said Ann Veronica, “I have
been trying to keep myself from thinking about love. "
Gravely he watched the needle flash to and fro. . ”
When the next holidays came Ann Veronica’s mother was ill, and Gwen was
in the sick-room when Ann Veronica returned home. There were words,
then, that ran on indefinitely, with reversals? Here they meant one thing; there,
the exact opposite. ”
“You shouldn’t have made an engagement until you’d consulted your aunt. “Come, daddy,” said Ann Veronica, following her husband and Miss Stanley;
and in the fulness of her heart she gave a friendly squeeze to the parental arm. ” She shook her head.
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