Sydney and Brendon vied with one another in their efforts to engage Anna in conversation, and Miss Ellicot, during the momentary lull, deemed it a favourable opportunity to recommence siege operations. “I shall send for a policeman,” Anna said, “directly my maid answers the bell— unless you choose to go before. Wood then took to his heels, and never once looked behind him till he reached his own dwelling in Wych Street. The temperature soared to one hundred degrees, sickeningly hot. But finding his hints totally disregarded, he, at length, swaggered up to the table, and thrust in a chair. “I knew you wouldn’t mind. Stories … love stories: and to-morrow she would know the joy of reading them! It was almost unbelievable; it was too good to be true. ’ ‘In any event,’ Gerald told her, with a grin, ‘I can’t marry this one. She had thought to wear it now, since she must look more the demoiselle. ’ ‘Entertained, he says!’ ‘Intrigued, then,’ amended Gerald equably, although truth to tell he was enjoying the mystery enormously. With a moment of inward shame he remembered his deportment towards Anna. The neighbouring houses were tenanted by the lowest order of insolvent traders, thieves, mendicants, and other worthless and nefarious characters, who fled thither to escape from their creditors, or to avoid the punishment due to their different offenses; for we may observe that the Old Mint, although it had been divested of some of its privileges as a sanctuary by a recent statute passed in the reign of William the Third, still presented a safe asylum to the debtor, and even continued to do so until the middle of the reign of George the First, when the crying nature of the evil called loudly for a remedy, and another and more sweeping enactment entirely took away its immunities.
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