” Her first upward glance was one of terrified apprehension. I expect company. ‘It is you who is the fool,’ she threw at him, whipping round again. Wood, then, beheld two persons, one of whom he recognised as Rowland, spring on board the chase. 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. Twelve years, then, have elapsed since the date of the occurrences detailed in the preceding division of this history. Then instinct took over. She felt a little ashamed of herself, a bit of a hypocrite. The glance, which he threw at the door, was singularly expressive of his character: it was a mixture of alarm, effrontery, and resolution. With this view, Jack was carried—for he was no longer able to move without assistance— to a ward called the Castle, situated over the gateway on the western side, in what was considered the strongest part of the jail. It rather astonished him. How she had hated it!… All these mumblings which were never explained, which carried no more sense to her brain than they would have carried to Old Morgan's swearing parrot. And neither had any of that theatricality which demands gestures and facial expression.
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