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. Wood, sinking into a chair, and fanning herself
violently,—"what a fluster you have put me into with your violence, to be sure!
And at the very time, too, when you know I'm expecting a visit from Mr. She calmed herself,
breathing deeply. Her father
intercepted her, and for a moment she and he struggled with their hands upon the
latch. I'm trying to
make you see the worldly point of view, which always inclines toward the evil
side of things. Every time you mention the
father, she turns into marble. Poor Ruth: for a father, a
madman; for a husband—a thief!
Spurlock rocked his body slightly. He walked hastily to the side of the broad pavement
and summoned a fiacre. “All day. Gerald noted the lady’s eyes brighten as she caught sight of him making his
way through the throng towards her. “You must arrest me!” she gasped, breathlessly, insisting insanely on a point
already carried; “you shall!”
The police-station at the end seemed to Ann Veronica like a refuge from
unnamable disgraces. But I’m not a slut either, if
that’s what you think. She had never felt so
acutely the desire for free initiative, for a life unhampered by others. I saw the metal box a hundred times, but I never thought of opening
it until the day I fled.
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