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Everett, General Lord Charvill, master of a barony stretching over a wide estate
that encroached on the hundreds of Witham, Thurstable and Dengy, stood before
his own fireplace, glaring at his visitors from under bushy white brows from a
head held necessarily low above a back painfully bent by rheumatism. “Come to my rooms
and have a drink. This gate, called Newgate, "as being latelier builded
than the rest," continued, for upwards of three hundred years, to be used as a
place of imprisonment for felons and trespassers; at the end of which time,
having grown old, ruinous, and "horribly loathsome," it was rebuilt and enlarged
by the executors of the renowned Sir Richard Whittington, the Lord Mayor of
London: whence it afterwards obtained amongst a certain class of students,
whose examinations were conducted with some strictness at the Old Bailey, and
their highest degrees taken at Hyde-park-corner, the appellation of Whittington's
College, or, more briefly, the Whit. “Let us escape,” she said. “For Heaven’s sake, Dunster, don’t let her out of the carriage, or hansom, or
whatever she came in. The fact that it was her trusted
friend making illicit love to her remained, in spite of all her effort, an
insignificant thing in her mind. "He has quite the air of one. He walked across the Park and called upon his sister. He would come swiftly to her aid, she knew it. As she drew off her skirt she felt something in the pocket, and
remembered the letter which the commissionaire at the Carlton had given her. And Teddy declared himself ready to go to the ends of the
earth for her, and carry her luggage all the way. Beautiful is the girl of twelve,—who is neither
child nor woman, but something between both, something more exquisite than
either!
Such was the fairy creature presented to Thames Darrell, under the following
circumstances. "There'll be a
louder echo here presently," thought Jonathan. A young man turned to pay the cabman.
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