He was there concealed, waiting
her return. ‘Up, Jacques, up,’ she ordered. 15
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A MARRIAGE, PART ONE
School was winding down. “You too were deceived. “I think,” she said, “that I rather like what you have said. A doubt as to your dinner to-morrow would make you miserable
to-night. ‘You give me an excellent excuse to have in the Madeira,’ said his hostess,
reaching for a silver hand bell and setting it pealing. “I do not wish to use this. Put on that new dress—the
one that's all white. 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. ’
***
In the cosy little parlour that Pottiswick rarely used, Melusine paced restlessly to
and fro.
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