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. "Master
Thames Ditt—what's his blessed name?—has honesty written in his handsome
phiz; but as to his companion, Jack Sheppard, I think you call him, he's a born
and bred thief. His smile faded. And thus he effected his escape from the New Prison. You know—if you want freedom. ‘Been led up the
garden path by that confounded rapscallion. “Those young men
startled me at first, because they knew my name. ’
Gerald laughed, and turned back to Melusine, who was frowning again. He hung precariously on the ragged edge, but he hung
there. There was just time for the girl to raise her arm to chest height and draw it
back before Roding seized her. How came you to know it? Have you
heard the name before?"
"I think I have—long, long ago, when I was a child," replied Mrs. Maggot's offer may appear, the young man thought fit to
decline it, and, after a few words of well-merited compliment on her
extraordinary prowess, and renewed thanks to Mr. "No prize shall indushe me to enter dat horrid plashe again. “I can’t endure it,” she said. ‘Who’d believe me? And I’d have
to tell my part in it all, too.
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