"I was afraid it would be so. In consequence of the infamous abuse of its liberties, an act for the entire suppression of the Old Mint was passed in the ninth year of the reign of George the First, not many months before the date of the present epoch of this history; and as, after the destruction of Whitefriars, which took place in the reign of Charles the Second, owing to the protection afforded by its inmates to the Levellers and Fifth-monarchy-men, when the inhabitants of Alsatia crossed the water, and settled themselves in the borough of Southwark,—so now, driven out of their fastnesses, they again migrated, and recrossing the Thames, settled in Wapping, in a miserable quarter between Artichoke Lane and Nightingale Lane, which they termed the New Mint. ” 174 < 21 > THANKSGIVING She padded softly up the old stairs, exhausted and elated. Ann Veronica was apologetic to the bottom of her soul. Wood had the advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special recommendation in female eyes. I found a blue stone on the beach once. Two persons, besides the clergyman and sexton, alone attended the ceremony. And, if I'd my own way, I'd drown 'em all like a litter o' puppies. I am your first, of course you feel strongly. ‘Nevertheless, you will marry me,’ he snarled. The call of youth to youth, and we name it love for want of something better: a glamorous, evanescent thing "like snow upon the desert's dusty face, lighting a little hour or two, was gone. “She has refused to listen to you?” “She has behaved in a most extraordinary manner,” he answered.
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