"Maitland is one of the most notorious coiners in England, and your husband is his confederate and assistant.

We've been watching, just to get a case that there would be no trouble about, and we've got it." "And if it is proved ?" she asked, trembling.
He looked very serious.

"Mrs.Hawker, I know your history, as well as your husband's, the same as if you told it to me.

So I am sorry to give a lady who is in misfortune more pain than I can help; but you know coining is a hanging matter." She rocked herself wildly to and fro, and the chair where she sat, squeezing the child against her bosom till he cried.

She soothed him again without a word, and then said to the officer, who was searching every nook and cranny in the room: "Shall you be obliged to turn me out of here, or may I stay a few nights ?" "You can stay as long as you please, madam," he said; "that's a matter with your landlady, not me.