Then they dressed
her in a dirty dress of coarse serge and a cap, and took away her own clothes. In consequence of the infamous abuse of its liberties, an act for the entire
suppression of the Old Mint was passed in the ninth year of the reign of George
the First, not many months before the date of the present epoch of this history;
and as, after the destruction of Whitefriars, which took place in the reign of
Charles the Second, owing to the protection afforded by its inmates to the
Levellers and Fifth-monarchy-men, when the inhabitants of Alsatia crossed the
water, and settled themselves in the borough of Southwark,—so now, driven out
of their fastnesses, they again migrated, and recrossing the Thames, settled in
Wapping, in a miserable quarter between Artichoke Lane and Nightingale Lane,
which they termed the New Mint. She had slept badly at first in a
long chair next to the fire waiting for him to return, but
caught on after that. CHAPTER V
At dinner the spinsters invited Ruth to sit at their table, an invitation she
accepted gratefully. "In the first place, she had no
knowledge of her birth; and, consequently, no false pride to get rid of. She glanced towards her sister, and
curiously enough found in her face some faint reflection of her own rather
sombre mirth. ”
Sir John clutched at the table with both hands. And you, Austin; and you
Langley, I say the same thing to you. Lucy felt her eyes misting up, turning traitor. There was, it might be said, a double illumination. To-night all this may seem hard and cruel. Those whom he retained about his person, or placed in offices of trust, were for
the most part convicted felons, who, having returned from transportation before
their term had expired, constituted, in his opinion, the safest agents, inasmuch as
they could neither be legal evidences against him, nor withhold any portion of
the spoil of which he chose to deprive them.
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