"Only my darbies," returned Jack, clinking his chains. ‘I knew I should
find you still here. Rot, no doubt; but we can’t alter
it. "
When Spurlock had finished the tale, touched here and there by his own
imagination, McClintock made a negative sign. Despair engulfed her at the horrid remembrance
that the one particular Englishman she knew to be sympathique did not at all
wish to marry her. She was glad when he went on: “I
want to be your city of refuge from every sort of bother. . If you had arrived ten minutes later, or if there
hadn't been an iron bar in the chimney, that hindered my progress, I should have
been beyond your reach. CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH
THOUGHTS IN PRISON
Part 1
The first night in prison she found it impossible to sleep. There
was something fatalistic about the letter H. . She found him reclined, watching television in a small
guest room hidden in a back wing of the massive house. 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. From now on,
you’re going to listen to me for a change. ”
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