“So you’d best open your coffers. ’ ‘You’re going to break into the house? You’re mad. Wood was heard without, angrily demanding admittance. He had removed his silk hat, and now sat looking at Ann Veronica over an untouched cup of tea; he sat gloating upon her, trying to catch her eye. They would be quite as entertaining as the histories of Guzman D'Alfarache, Lazarillo de Tormes, Estevanillo Gonzalez, Meriton Latroon, or any of my favourite rogues,—and far more instructive. “Is that plain?” she asked. “You know about my scandalous past?” “Very little. Come with me to the Condemned Hold directly, and, if I find my fears confirmed, I'll—" He was here interrupted by the sudden entrance of the black, who rushed precipitately into the room, letting fall the heavy bunch of keys in his fright. ’ Gerald ignored this. The whole incident was so unexpected that neither Courtlaw nor Brendon were awaiting. She shook them off of one foot. “I should make sure that he doesn’t try to drive himself home. ” “What!” he asked; “not a kiss?” She affected not to hear. She stood on the mat instead, and looked down on him. 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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