CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH
THE COLLAPSE OF THE PENITENT
Part 1
Spring had held back that year until the dawn of May, and then spring and
summer came with a rush together. She flung aside every plan she had in life, every discretion. 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. You mustn't go dressing up Tom, Dick, and Harry in
Henry Esmond's ruffles. ”
She had spoken rather rapidly. They had completed a circuit of the mansion before Roding’s frustration burst
out. You shall swing for this after
next sessions, or my name's not Jonathan Wild. "That
he couldn't choose any one so agreeable to me.
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