ToC Scarcely an hour after the horrible occurrence just related, as Jonathan Wild was seated in the audience-chamber of his residence at the Old Bailey, occupied, like Peachum, (for whose portrait he sat,) with his account-books and registers, he was interrupted by the sudden entrance of Quilt Arnold, who announced Jack Sheppard and Blueskin. She read the policeman’s rueful glance when she caught his refection in his rearview mirror. All that he had sown that afternoon with such infinite care was as nothing compared to this seed, cast without forethought. Perhaps it had been pick-pocketed or jostled from her dress in a hunt. A lawyer has come all the way from America about it. He looked at her with an expression of comical despair. 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. "Spare me!" he groaned, looking upwards. “I have waited for this,” he said, and stood quite still, looking at her until the silence became oppressive. We have seen great and sober-minded men come to this unholy city, and become degenerates.
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