He might not condone it, but the feelings that had prompted it augured well for Melusine’s safety. “Please stop fighting me. To be with you is the best moral tonic I know. “All’s well that ends well,” he said; “and the less one says about things the better. ‘But I’m hanged if I know why you find it so amusing. ” Ennison obeyed Anna’s gesture, and was silent. Ann Veronica forgot him as soon as she was through the gate, and her face resumed its expression of stern preoccupation. The thought of beauty became an obsession. You did not say a word about it last week, nor have you written. It may be, it probably will all come to, nothing. 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. "I will struggle no longer with destiny. " So saying, he descended a short spiral staircase, and, entering a long stone gallery, from which several other passages branched, took one of them, and after various turnings—for he was familiar with all the intricacies of the prison— arrived at the cell of which he was in search.
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