This was
unscrupulous, he admitted, because he had no intention of following through on
the seductive promise in his conduct. “And now let us leave the men alone and
talk about ourselves. This gate, called Newgate, "as being latelier builded
than the rest," continued, for upwards of three hundred years, to be used as a
place of imprisonment for felons and trespassers; at the end of which time,
having grown old, ruinous, and "horribly loathsome," it was rebuilt and enlarged
by the executors of the renowned Sir Richard Whittington, the Lord Mayor of
London: whence it afterwards obtained amongst a certain class of students,
whose examinations were conducted with some strictness at the Old Bailey, and
their highest degrees taken at Hyde-park-corner, the appellation of Whittington's
College, or, more briefly, the Whit. ’
Noting the twinkle in her great-aunt’s eye, Melusine forebore to comment,
grateful to Lucilla for adjuring Captain Roding to give an account of himself. ”
“It isn’t nice going to prison. "A storm!" exclaimed the landlord.
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