. A feeling of inexplicable awe crept over the carpenter as the sounds died away. ” “Your knowledge of our ways,” he murmured “is profound. White assented. The chance had gone. " "Piano-player? Do you mean someone who plays for you?" "No, no; one of those mechanical things you play with your feet. He’d borne mention of the woman’s name. He held her hand in his, cupped together like a pair of shells for the rest of the hour. A large dog was then set at him by a stable-boy; but, striking the animal with his faithful iron-bar, he speedily sent him yelping back. ’ She was too distressed to bear this. How could she tell him what indeed already began to puzzle herself, why she had borrowed that money at all? The plain fact was that she had grabbed a bait. Her dress, it has just been said, was neatness and simplicity itself. " "Well, that's a hopeful sign. ’ Tears sprang to Melusine’s own eyes, and she clasped the hand she held more tightly. 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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