‘You see, I had another reason for visiting your grandfather. “Cool. Melusine did not try to fight her captor, for that
would only make him angry. However, I daresay that we
shall come across one another before long. They're only just
gone, mercy on us! what a clatter," she added, as the knocking was repeated
more violently than before. But it strikes me there's a nigger in the woodpile somewhere, as
you Yankees say. “Unless you have an appointment, which you haven’t,” he said, “you’ll only
waste your time here. Wild is a great man," said the hangman, replenishing his pipe, "and we owe
him much, and ought to support him. 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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