And now she was witnessing or observing the complicated machinery of civilization through which they had come, at length to land on the beach of her island. We’ve done nothing to deserve it. ‘It was a good chance for a new life,’ Joan explained, venturing to face Melusine again, ‘and Martha took it. I knew it was in vain to cry 'murder!' in the Mint, so I had recourse to stratagem. I expect company. However this may be, such was the ill report of the place that few passed along the Old Bailey without bestowing a glance of fearful curiosity at its dingy walls, and wondering what was going on inside them; while fewer still, of those who paused at the door, read, without some internal trepidation, the formidable name—inscribed in large letters on its bright brass-plate—of JONATHAN WILD. To him she had always appeared as a mere pleasure-loving parasite—something quite insignificant. And if one were to love some one very much, it’s just so that one would be blindest, just when one wanted most to see. Strangers look in and long, and neighbours are moved to envy. It was decrepit and too large.
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