‘No doubt accompanied by the latest crim con tales. 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 patted John's
head with her palm, its surface appealingly fuzzy. If he was asleep, then she much
regretted that she must wake him up. "Off with it to the health of King James the Third, and confusion to his
enemies!"
"Hold!" interposed Wood; "that is treason. As she looked in this direction, the thief-taker raised his eyes—those gray,
blood-thirsty eyes!—their glare froze the life-blood in her veins. ‘Because I’m a female,’ declared Lucilla unanswerably. uh. But
take a drop of wine," urged he, filling a drinking-horn and presenting it to her;
"it's choice canary, and'll do you good. She waited a
few minutes, then greeted the burly doorman who stood
as the building’s lone sentry. You will go to London?”
“It is necessary,” she answered. You do not wish to marry me at all, that is
seen.
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