CHAPTER XXIV. It's as well to be on the safe side. 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. Then he stepped
briskly to his feet and bent over the wounded man. They began to wrestle fiercely. In the northwest angle, there was a small pen for female offenders, and, on the south, a more
commodious enclosure appropriated to the master-debtors and strangers. ’
‘So this is the way you serve me,’ exclaimed Melusine, her quick temper
flaring as she jumped up, slammed her hands on the desk and leaned towards
him over it. ’
Gerald considered. Take me! take me!"
"Before an hour you shall be mine," said Jonathan advancing towards her. She fought him with tooth and nail.
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