"YOU WERE BRAVE AND FOUGHT FOR ME" Meanwhile Lavinia was hastening to Grub Street.

On her way she bought a pair of shoes which if not quite in the _mode_ were at least fellows.
She also cleverly talked the shopkeeper into allowing her something on the discarded odd ones and thereby saved a shilling.
The girl's old life in roaming about the streets had sharpened her wits.
Adversity had taught her much.

It had given her a knowledge of persons and things denied to those to whom life had always been made easy.

She had had sundry acquaintances among the pretty orange girls who plied their trade at Drury Lane and the Duke's theatres and had got to know how useful Dr.Mountchance was in buying presents bestowed upon them by young bloods flushed with wine, and in other ways.

Hence when in want of money she looked upon her brooch she at once thought of the old man's shop on London Bridge.
The taverns in those days were real houses of refreshment.