‘Prudence? This name I have heard
it spoken. There’s something—
something ADULT about you. Nothing would induce me to
marry you, or any man at present. ”
“YOU ASKED YOUR FATHER FOR A REASON!” said Miss Miniver, with
great intensity. 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. Can you
imagine how dreadful it must be for them? Most of them arrive here almost
penniless. And she was about as capable of intelligent argument as a runaway
steam-roller. John’s best
friend’s parents were to be out of town again, he
reported. He was chained to the ground, but started up at their approach. ’
The breathy laugh came, and Madame Valade abandoned her fan. At last some anodyne formed itself from these exercises, and, with eyelashes
wet with such feeble tears as only three-o’clock-in-the-morning pathos can distil,
she fell asleep. “The truth!” It was a moment of awkwardness between the two sisters
—a moment, too, charged with its own psychological interest, for there were
secrets between them which for many months had made their intercourse a
constrained and difficult thing.
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