There was already a score or more of people there, some standing up and talking
together, others seated in chairs ranged along the wall. I am a thing to be used. ”
“I had to,” she repeated. It had ever
been her policy, much to Melusine’s relief, for she was apt to complain that it
only made her mad and there was nothing she could do about it. The neighbouring houses were tenanted by the lowest order of
insolvent traders, thieves, mendicants, and other worthless and nefarious
characters, who fled thither to escape from their creditors, or to avoid the
punishment due to their different offenses; for we may observe that the Old
Mint, although it had been divested of some of its privileges as a sanctuary by a
recent statute passed in the reign of William the Third, still presented a safe
asylum to the debtor, and even continued to do so until the middle of the reign of
George the First, when the crying nature of the evil called loudly for a remedy,
and another and more sweeping enactment entirely took away its immunities.
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