It was also cold, and dark, for there had been no time to light the lantern. ‘Is that a gesture of friendship?’ She stamped her foot. Then fury claimed her and she could no longer pretend. ‘It must seem strange to you at first. There are no funerals among the poor, only burials. By this time, she had so far succeeded in calming herself, that she answered the greetings of the neighbours whom she encountered on her way to the sacred edifice—if sorrowfully, still composedly. ” He closed the door of 109 in her face. Urging his steed along Oxford Road,— as that great approach to the metropolis was then termed,—he soon passed Marylebone Lane, beyond which, with the exception of a few scattered houses, the country was completely open on the right, and laid out in pleasant fields and gardens; nor did he draw in the rein until he arrived at Tyburn-gate, where, before he turned off upon the Edgeware Road, he halted for a moment, to glance at the place of execution. Jests are not for seasons like this. 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. Just as he got on the roof of the prison, St. Eight per cent. Sheppard, which she gratefully declined. “Don’t we all rather humbug about the coarseness? All we women, I mean,” said she.
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