Norris
was so frightened that she ordered the postboys to drive back as fast as they
could. The pause lengthened, and
he had the satisfaction of seeing despair melt the set mockery of Spurlock's
mouth. ”
“H’m!” said Ann Veronica, and shook her head. She could manage
the major. ”
Part 9
She was sitting brooding over her fire about ten o’clock that night when a
sealed and registered envelope was brought up to her. 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. There it is. Gerald kicked the panelled
wall in frustration. "Right!—right!" cried Jack, striking his fettered hands against his breast.
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