” Then she fell to thinking about her aunt. ’ The door closed behind them both and Gerald was alone with Melusine. “I could not have stayed in Paris and waited for news. Besides," he added cynically, "it is said that God watches over fools and drunken men. ‘Think it’s worth getting some sort of light and following her down there?’ asked Roding. . Perhaps in two or three weeks. 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. “Let us put the lamp out,” she said; “the flames are ever so much better for talking,” and Ann Veronica agreed. The latter took from his pocket a small note-book and pencil. . She bussed his cheek with her small lips as he stood by the open door, and exited alone towards the sleeping house.
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