MANNING,—I find it very difficult to answer your letter. Perhaps I ate something spoiled for breakfast. Detention would mean coming home late, which spelled distraction and trouble on the night of a kill. And yet, on the very site of the sordid tenements and squalid courts we have mentioned, where the felon openly made his dwelling, and the fraudulent debtor laughed the object of his knavery to scorn—on this spot, not two centuries ago, stood the princely residence of Charles Brandon, the chivalrous Duke of Suffolk, whose stout heart was a well of honour, and whose memory breathes of loyalty and valour. You’d better not have all the money on you; you had better open a small account in the postoffice and draw it out a fiver at a time. I know what I am doing better than you do. He had died before they married, and when her brother became a widower she had come to his assistance and taken over much of the care of his youngest daughter. Aware that they would not be allowed to remain long unmolested, the New Minters conducted themselves so outrageously, and with such extraordinary insolence, that measures were at this time being taken for their effectual suppression. Infested by every description of vagabond and miscreant, it was, perhaps, a few degrees worse than the rookery near Saint Giles's and the desperate neighbourhood of Saffron Hill in our own time. He was made welcome as McClintock's agent; but he politely declined all the proffered courtesies. ’ A trifle discomposed at being caught examining his surroundings, Gerald was provoked into retort. It looks so French to be affectionate. “Dinner is served, m’m,” said the efficient parlor-maid in the archway, and the worst was over. Meantime, the Stone Hall was crowded by all the inmates of the jail, debtors, felons, turnkeys, and officers who could obtain permission to witness the ceremony of the prisoner's irons being struck off.
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