“I just came to you and put myself in your
hands. "
"And what course do you propose to pursue in reference to him?" asked Sir
Rowland. "
"Well, Sir, I must say you deserve some credit for your ingenuity, at all events,"
replied Jonathan, repressing a smile; "but, before you put out your foot so far, it
would have been quite as prudent to consider how you were to draw it back
again. 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. I am dreadfully sad. ’
‘What?’ uttered Gerald, startled. He opened the door of still another room, in one corner of which was a grand
piano. “Too greasy for me.
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