"In my opinion," remarked Kneebone, "it doesn't matter how soon society is rid
of two such scoundrels; and if Blueskin dies by the rope, and Jonathan by the
hand of violence, they'll meet the fate they merit. "Patience Kite has lured him to Enfield on a
false scent after Blueskin. I spend many delightful hours thinking of the pleasant and
beautiful things of life. We have a very nice set of young people here too just at present, and
you would soon make some friends. Loneliness—something that was almost physical: as if the vitality had been
taken out of the air she breathed. Now, you and I can gossip at a gate, and Honi soit qui mal y
pense. If she had once known him, if he
were some former neighbour, it would be comprehensible. In consequence of the infamous abuse of its liberties, an act for the entire
suppression of the Old Mint was passed in the ninth year of the reign of George
the First, not many months before the date of the present epoch of this history;
and as, after the destruction of Whitefriars, which took place in the reign of
Charles the Second, owing to the protection afforded by its inmates to the
Levellers and Fifth-monarchy-men, when the inhabitants of Alsatia crossed the
water, and settled themselves in the borough of Southwark,—so now, driven out
of their fastnesses, they again migrated, and recrossing the Thames, settled in
Wapping, in a miserable quarter between Artichoke Lane and Nightingale Lane,
which they termed the New Mint.
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