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There’s plenty to be got out of life in a decent sort of way. ” “You know,” he said with some hesitation, “that your sister is singing. She followed Oxford Street into Holborn, and then she inquired for Chancery Lane. She was never able to trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love (and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired, for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the sawdust in its doll. She turned with an effort. " "Won't you take me?" "No; you must await my return here. I do not say guest because that suggests friendship; and I am no friend of this Wastrel. Hold your hand for a moment. I didn’t understand before that letter. " "I'll bet she still smells to heaven with sour coconut. " "They know. I——” She threw herself into an easy chair. I am determined to fight my own little battle with the world —there must be a place for me somewhere, and I mean to find it. 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.
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