She was glad when he went on: “I
want to be your city of refuge from every sort of bother. "
He passed it over; and Ruth read:
To be opened in case of my death and the letter inside forwarded to the
address thereon. He put his free arm around her and held the censer ready; and as Ruth snuggled
her cheek against his sleeve, they were, so far as intent, in each other's arms. Perhaps these few words were the first real
conscious words he had uttered in days. 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.
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