Part 5 In the beginning of December Ann Veronica began to speculate privately upon the procedure of pawning. The sun was setting, casting long dreary shadows across deformed apple trees. A struggle of the most terrific kind now ensued. “Anna,” he pleaded, “be merciful. I want you to hold me and have me SO. ” “Quite. McClintock will be tuning up the piano to-day. She seemed to grow more beautiful to him and not the opposite. 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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