5. When mistress took and died—’ Joan broke off and sighed, moving away to the window. He turned irresolutely to the table upon which lay the scattered leaves of his old manuscripts. Just one thing more. “Your father,” he said, “remarked that all’s well that ends well, and that he was disposed to let bygones be bygones. “The city of Athens was more glorious then any city 197 ever before it and no city has ever rivaled it since. And that happens through our maternity; it’s our very importance that degrades us. ‘It—it is—nothing,’ she uttered jerkily. ‘You cannot mean General Charvill?’ ‘That old martinet?’ exclaimed Roding. "Nor any one else, I suspect," answered Ireton, winking significantly. 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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