Perhaps
what urged her interest in the young man's direction was the dead whiteness of
his face, the puffed eyelids and the bloodshot whites. In consequence of the infamous abuse of its liberties, an act for the entire
suppression of the Old Mint was passed in the ninth year of the reign of George
the First, not many months before the date of the present epoch of this history;
and as, after the destruction of Whitefriars, which took place in the reign of
Charles the Second, owing to the protection afforded by its inmates to the
Levellers and Fifth-monarchy-men, when the inhabitants of Alsatia crossed the
water, and settled themselves in the borough of Southwark,—so now, driven out
of their fastnesses, they again migrated, and recrossing the Thames, settled in
Wapping, in a miserable quarter between Artichoke Lane and Nightingale Lane,
which they termed the New Mint. “I was already aware of the
fact. He speaks English. ”
“You want my body? It’s yours for the taking. In twenty minutes we meet
in the hall, remember. ’
‘That’s right,’ agreed the militiaman, coming forward to stand before her. ’
‘Voracious. "
He took her face between his hands and kissed her on the lips. ’
Melusine gave it up. He drew a little breath of relief. He was conscious of a quickening of his heartbeat and the
familiar rise of adrenalin that sent his senses soaring in anticipation.
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