She had gladly lowered her eyes as she had been instructed to in front of the fine ladies and lords, as she was more interested in their clothing and fripperies than their faces. ‘More, I think,’ put in Madame, soulfully regarding the major, ‘because I have English, a little. I really must leave you now. The time was the 26th of November, 1703: the place, the Mint in Southwark. “If I thought for a moment that there was any chance of a relapse, I should stop here and tell him the truth even now. A maidservant held the front door open. You care for me a little, I know. Between comrades it is the most usual thing in the world, and I do not see how your sex intervenes. 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. He had a flattish, perhaps, it should be called, a flattened nose, and a brown, leathernlooking hide, that seemed as if it had not unfrequently undergone the process of tanning.
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