The scanty furniture of the rooms corresponded with their dungeon-like aspect. Every house-top, every window, every wall, every projection, had its occupants. Courtlaw is looking after you, Miss Pellissier,” she said. “I had a dream in the night,” she said. 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.
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