Much to my amazement, as soon as I was in her presence I forgot about my magic and thought only of love. But machinery will never approach the hand. She was still more stirred by the idea of the equal citizenship of men and women, by the realization that a big and growing organization of women were giving form and a generalized expression to just that personal pride, that aspiration for personal freedom and respect which had brought her to London; but when she heard Miss Miniver discoursing on the next step in the suffrage campaign, or read of women badgering Cabinet Ministers, padlocked to railings, or getting up in a public meeting to pipe out a demand for votes and be carried out kicking and screaming, her soul revolted. Some years ago, in 1715, just before the Rebellion, I was rash enough to league myself with the Jacobite party, and by Wild's machinations got clapped into Newgate, whence I was glad to escape with my head upon my shoulders. It was not a difficult affair. I ate only enough to keep body and soul together. Lucy howled as tooth met bone, her arm clamped in the trap of Rhea’s huge canines. So far it had been plain sailing, and it had seemed fairly evident to go on: “I find it very difficult to answer your letter. Into the second, denominated the Bilbowes,—also a dismal place,—refractory prisoners were thrust, and placed in a kind of stocks, whence the name. The coach in which the prisoner had been conveyed was already broken to pieces, and the driver was glad to escape with life. When I promised to marry you I thought I could; I thought it was a possible arrangement.
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