CHAPTER X. “To the best of my belief, I have not a single English acquaintance in the city. “It was just an hour before teatime,” she remarked. “Is it any one you know?” Brendon asked. It may here be mentioned that this gate, destined to bequeath its name—a name, which has since acquired a terrible significance,—to every successive structure erected upon its site, was granted, in 1400, by charter by Henry the Sixth to the citizens of London, in return for their royal services, and thenceforth became the common jail to that city and the county of Middlesex. ” “Then I am sure,” Sir John declared, “that I shall not ask you. It was the end, she told herself, fiercely. ” But after that neither ideas nor phrases had come and she had fallen thinking of the events of the day. You are wedged in amongst a crowd, perhaps in the promenade, you lean over the back, you are almost out of sight. Once a week, every Saturday, they had a little gathering from nine till the small hours, just talk and perhaps reading aloud and fruitarian refreshments—chestnut sandwiches buttered with nut tose, and so forth—and lemonade and unfermented wine; and to one of these symposia Miss Miniver after a good deal of preliminary solicitude, conducted Ann Veronica. “Sir John is a man of the world,” her aunt answered coldly. At any rate, here I am, and here I shall be, twenty thousand feet above all your poison-reeking cities, up where God’s wind comes fresh from heaven, very near indeed to the untrodden snows. "I've the Bridewell account to settle. Firmly built, as it was, the bridge creaked in such a manner with their contending efforts, that Abraham durst not venture beyond the door, where he stood, holding the light, a horrified spectator of the scene. ” “But it may matter very much indeed,” Anna declared.
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