“I thought you weren’t getting along so well with your
mother these days. Her head
dangled unnaturally for an instant, unleashed from its
moorings, then sank to join her husband’s on the floor. I hope to see the day, when not Southwark alone, but London itself
shall become one Mint,—when all men shall be debtors, and none creditors,—
when imprisonment for debt shall be utterly abolished,—- when highwayrobbery shall be accounted a pleasant pastime, and forgery an accomplishment,
—when Tyburn and its gibbets shall be overthrown,—capital punishments
discontinued,—Newgate, Ludgate, the Gatehouse, and the Compters razed to the
ground,—Bridewell and Clerkenwell destroyed,—the Fleet, the King's Bench,
and the Marshalsea remembered only by name! But, in the mean time, as that
day may possibly be farther off than I anticipate, we are bound to make the most
of the present. Seeing the footman about to follow her in, Gerald clamped a hand onto his
shoulder. "
"Ja—ja," returned the Hollander. But De Maupassant—sheer off! Stick to Dickens and
Thackeray and Hugo. “And you must please not look at me as though I were an executioner,” she
declared lightly. "You hay'n't
hurt your arm, I trust, my dear?" he added, anxiously. Never for a moment had violence come between these two since long ago he
had, in spite of her mother’s protest in the background, carried her kicking and
squalling to the nursery for some forgotten crime. "You mean, it doesn't
matter?"
"Poor Hoddy! When you were ill in Canton, out of your head, you babbled
words. We are not
altogether strangers, are we? I feel that under the circumstances I have the right
to offer you my advice, and if necessary my help. ‘Let’s see now. When he awoke it was late in the day, and raining heavily. It'll be
in your way.
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