It may here be mentioned that this gate, destined to bequeath its name—a name, which has since acquired a terrible significance,—to every successive structure erected upon its site, was granted, in 1400, by charter by Henry the Sixth to the citizens of London, in return for their royal services, and thenceforth became the common jail to that city and the county of Middlesex. Horrors abounded in every passageway as each turn could bring a vision of a poor woman running from her screaming plague-infested son or a bloated corpse of a rich man whose mouth lolled open, showing gaps where someone had pried out a few golden teeth. But I may yet live to thwart them. . They were alike in one phase—loveless and lonely. . Those were dreams. Besides, revenge is sweetened by delay; and I indulge too freely in the passion to rob it of any of its zest. It is the old story of a Westerner meddling with an Eastern custom.
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