”
For a moment she was grave. She had hardly noticed the loss
of her dagger, so strong had been the waves of relief that attacked her on hearing
that Jack had returned from death’s door. “But I must, I will,” he answered fiercely. 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. I believe—I
believe that I must risk it. Melusine flung herself down the rest of the steps and through the
doorway. For most of a long and fluctuating night she was fairly confident that she
would find work; she knew herself to be strong, intelligent, and capable by the
standards of most of the girls she knew.
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