“I really do not believe,” he announced with satisfaction, “that any one would
recognize me. My arm's nearly well
again. I always wondered why he bought my mother's pearls so
readily. McClintock wrote me about you; but all I needed
was the sight of your face as it was a moment gone. ”
Anna leaned back in the chair and laughed softly. 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. Has he given you the tools?"
"He has," replied Bess, producing the handkerchief. His eyes flashed
as he turned towards her. ‘Give me that!’
He took his finger away from her neck and made a grab at the handkerchief. She had a compartment to herself in the train from London to Morningside
Park, and she sat with both her feet on the seat in an attitude that would certainly
have distressed her mother to see, and horrified her grandmother beyond
measure; she sat with her knees up to her chin and her hands clasped before
them, and she was so lost in thought that she discovered with a start, from a
lettered lamp, that she was at Morningside Park, and thought she was moving
out of the station, whereas she was only moving in. “She has nothing to be afraid of,” he continued. Where the stuff came from was always a mystery.
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