”
“May I ask,” Anna said softly, “what you presume to have been the nature of my
errand here this evening?”
Sir John pointed to Annabel, who was as yet utterly limp. "I am as God made me. 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. You ought to have had
better advice two years ago. Ann
Veronica had had some training at the Tredgold College in disentangling threads
from confused statements, and she had a curious persuasion that in all this fluent
muddle there was something—something real, something that signified. “I’m mostly self-taught. “You were seen to leave the flat, and your
handkerchief was found there. Ruth hugged the envelope and McClintock, with the end of a burnt
match, drew a cabalistic sign.
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