’
The pathetic sob which accompanied the last word had a signal effect on two
of the company at least. Why did he imagine she was
making this journey to England? She feigned interest. “Here we are, living in the same suburb,” he began. Which, if we are not all of us very careful indeed, will be stolen from Miss
Charvill. 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. ‘And
she’s—’ She broke off, a sudden light in her eyes.
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