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. No more. By now the horses would be
rested and he might go as swiftly back again. ’
‘Will you go back there?’ asked Gerald. Well, I'll take myself off. One with the appearance of a
bald little gnome yawned agonizingly. "
Something in the child's voice, something in her manner, warned the spinster
that her well-meaning inquisitiveness had received a set-back and that it would
be dangerous to press it forward again. She told you
—the truth. I have two days in which to earn nearly
thirty shillings—that is with no dinners, and get a situation. "Good Lord!—cannibals?"
"Aye. . "
"No feelings of consanguinity shall stay my vengeance," said Thames, sternly. Why should you wish to forget
it? Unless it is that you did not enjoy it.
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