“Now step aside, I have some business to attend to. " "Well, villain!" replied Thames, "I know not the motive of your visit. I am safe while I am there, for I have had bolts fitted everywhere, and a pane of glass in the front door. Has she any funds?" "She must have. ” The girl nodded. “Why not? They tell me that London is impossible till after ten, and I want my first impressions to be favourable. 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. He flung aside all his talk of help and disinterested friendship as though it had never been even a disguise between them, as though from the first it was no more than a fancy dress they had put quite understandingly upon their relationship.
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