Wood had the advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special recommendation in female eyes. "The ceiling is breaking! the floor is opening! he is coming to me!" cried the unhappy woman. 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. ’ ‘For shame, Hilary,’ admonished his fiancée, casting a pitying glance at the refugees. Then she sat down—uninvited— and looked from one to the other curiously. From the window he saw The Tigress faring toward Copeley's! Then somebody was coming? Some political high muckamuck, probably. It would be useless to tell her to go back, even heartless; and yet he could not advise her to go on, blindly, not knowing whether her aunt was dead or alive. And now she comprehended that the man (she had never known him by any name) knew she had surprised the look and had not resented it. "He wouldn't hurt a rabbit.
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