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. The walls
were bare, and painted in stone-colour; the floors, devoid of carpet; the beds, of
hangings; the windows, of blinds; and, excepting in the thief-taker's own
audience-chamber, there was not a chair or a table about the premises; the place
of these conveniences being elsewhere supplied by benches, and deal-boards laid
across joint-stools. Melusine came close again, and reached up a finger tentatively to the face
depicted there. ’
‘Eh? Why did you not say so, man?’ demanded Hilary crossly. "So I did," retorted Mrs. It’s a
thing that’s happened to you. Voilà tout. Why not? Were not his own sentiments inclined in favour of the
patient? But fifty gold was fifty gold. "
"It would be funny—just as a trustworthy Malay would be funny.
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