“Annabel;” he moaned. " "Do not speak of it," rejoined Thames, with a look of horror. “I didn’t understand, Vee. . The last of Jarvis’s harlots must have departed in a hurry, for she had apparently left a roomful of clothes. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer, driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. At least that, I think, is what makes a clever woman’s independent career so much more difficult than a clever man’s. 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. "I won't trouble you further, Jack," he remarked. ” “The faults are the best part of it,” said Ann Veronica; “why, even our little vicious strains run the same way. Capes most unfair,” Miss Klegg went on in a small, even voice; “MOST unfair! I’m glad you spoke out as you did. He will be sorry when he knows who I am,’ decided Melusine with satisfaction.
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