Chapter XVI THE DISCOMFITURE OF SIR JOHN Sir John looked from one to the other of the two sisters. ‘You have rifled his papers. I'll be feeling fine in no time. Over the mantel, set into an ornately carved panel with fluted columns at each end, was a portrait of a man on horseback. “Pray accept my apologies. He blurted, “I was just telling Lucy that I have finished an important work. "Enough's as good as a feast. The neighbouring houses were tenanted by the lowest order of insolvent traders, thieves, mendicants, and other worthless and nefarious characters, who fled thither to escape from their creditors, or to avoid the punishment due to their different offenses; for we may observe that the Old Mint, although it had been divested of some of its privileges as a sanctuary by a recent statute passed in the reign of William the Third, still presented a safe asylum to the debtor, and even continued to do so until the middle of the reign of George the First, when the crying nature of the evil called loudly for a remedy, and another and more sweeping enactment entirely took away its immunities. ‘Civilian peace-keeping forces, you know. Or, better still, put all my clothes in the trunk. "Oh God!" exclaimed Jack, in a tone of the bitterest anguish. They should never come into contact with politics or economics—or any of those things.
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