She was tired, hungry—and thus somewhat impatient for the food Mrs Ibstock might bring—and downcast. He flung Ruth aside, careless whether she fell or not. The movement was fatal to her son. Everybody breathed a collective sigh of relief in the neighborhood, no one wanted to see how those kids would grow up. So, adroitly and patiently, he pulled Ruth apart; that is, he plucked forth a little secret here, another there, until he had quite a substantial array. I should have known at a glance if it was. 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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