“You know,” he muttered, “you know quite well that your troubles are far more
likely to weigh upon me than my own. 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. “H’m!” he said, regarding the wreckage with a calmer
visage. Stanley pronounced, and seemed to
hesitate whether he had not gone too far. ’
A faint smile crossed Gerald’s lips. The houses were older, the
shops gloomier, and the thoroughfare narrower, it is true; but the bustle, the
crowd, the street-like air was the same. "Do you hear me?" cried the lady, with increasing vehemence.
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