Alderman Dunstable said that sincerity was often a matter of opportunity, and
illustrated the point to the fair young man with an anecdote about Blinders on the
Dust Destructor Committee, during which the young man in the orange tie
succeeded in giving the whole discussion a daring and erotic flavor by
questioning whether any one could be perfectly sincere in love. The neighbouring houses were tenanted by the lowest order of
insolvent traders, thieves, mendicants, and other worthless and nefarious
characters, who fled thither to escape from their creditors, or to avoid the
punishment due to their different offenses; for we may observe that the Old
Mint, although it had been divested of some of its privileges as a sanctuary by a
recent statute passed in the reign of William the Third, still presented a safe
asylum to the debtor, and even continued to do so until the middle of the reign of
George the First, when the crying nature of the evil called loudly for a remedy,
and another and more sweeping enactment entirely took away its immunities. In Wych Street Owen Wood did dwell;
A carpenter he was by trade,
And money, I believe, he made.
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