‘Possibly,’ he said. His frowning gaze came back to her. 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. Lucy grabbed his shirtsleeve, whispering on
tiptoe. I've a child here whom I wish to convey across the water without loss of
time. Deserted by his older companion in iniquity, and instigator to
crime, he did not know what might become of him; nor, as we have observed,
was the sad spectacle he had just witnessed, without effect. To reach the
Sha-mien—and particularly the Hotel Victoria—one crossed a narrow canal,
always choked with rocking sampans over and about which swarmed yellow
men and women and children in varied shades of faded blue cotton. "He said, by way of comfort, I suppose, after the fright he gave me at first, that
the child would find a friend within twenty-four hours, who would stand by him
through life. Of course, at home there would have been questions.
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