Defoe Daniel. Moll Flanders

Webster’s Thesaurus Edition for PSAT, SAT, GRE, LSAT, GMAT, and AP English Test Preparation.My true name is so well known in the records or registers at Newgate, and in
the Old Bailey, and there are some things of such consequence still depending
there, relating to my particular conduct, that it is not be expected I should set my
name or the account of my family to this work; perhaps, after my death, it may
be better known; at present it would not be proper, no not though a general
pardon should be issued, even without exceptions and reserve of persons or
crimes.
It is enough to tell you, that as some of my worst comrades, who are out of
the way of doing me harm (having gone out of the world by the steps and the
string, as I often expected to go ), knew me by the name of Moll Flanders, so you
may give me leave to speak of myself under that name till I dare own who I have
been, as well as who I am.
I have been told that in one of neighbour nations, whether it be in France or
where else I know not, they have an order from the king, that when any criminal
is condemned, either to die, or to the galleys, or to be transported, if they leave
any children, as such are generally unprovided for, by the poverty or forfeiture
of their parents, so they are immediately taken into the care of the Government,
and put into a hospital called the House of Orphans, where they are bred up,
clothed, fed, taught, and when fit to go out, are placed out to trades or to services,