. Instead her
point disengaged, dropped, and then the sword came up again and banged, flatbladed, onto Gosse’s wrist with such force that his own blade dropped from his
grasp. Adjoining it was the Lower Ward,—"Though,
in what degree of latitude it was situated," observes Ned Ward, "I cannot
positively demonstrate, unless it lay ninety degrees beyond the North Pole; for,
instead of being dark there but half a year, it is dark all the year round. Stanley admired and detested him in almost
equal measure. Accordingly, he stopped the coach,
dismounted, and hastened towards the assemblage, which, he was glad to find,
consisted chiefly of a posse of watchmen and other guardians of the night. Stanley’s pace slackened. Taken altogether, his physiognomy resembled
one of those vagabond heads which Murillo delighted to paint, and for which
Guzman d'Alfarache, Lazarillo de Tormes, or Estevanillo Gonzalez might have
sat:—faces that almost make one in love with roguery, they seem so full of
vivacity and enjoyment. Lucy slipped upstairs silently. 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. He blushed, too, spiritually, as it were. "What! refuse to see a person who desires to speak with
me. Every one else does. “Dreadful women, my dear!” said Miss Stanley.
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