“And as for praying for faith—this sort of monologue is about as near as any one of my sort ever gets to prayer. He'd have some fun with that Chinaman before the morning was out. Are you now satisfied?" "No," interposed Wood, furiously, "I shall never be satisfied till I see you hanged on the highest gibbet at Tyburn. "The door's open, and the room empty. Maggot, dealing him a blow, which stretched him senseless on the floor. The office is a sight—not one sheet of paper on another; bills and receipts everywhere. The brain tires of resistance, and when it meets again and again, incoherently active, the same phrases, the same ideas that it has already slain, exposed and dissected and buried, it becomes less and less energetic to repeat the operation. It was his purpose to complete four or five stories before he sent any away. 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. The major himself told me that this secret passage started upstairs. Now, it won't do a bit of good to warn Spurlock. "Where shall I fly?" exclaimed the lady, bewildered with terror. She possessed what he affected to despise, but secretly worshipped—the innate charm of breeding.
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