” She said. I thought I’d see Paris, do the thing—like a toff. ”
Ann Veronica started from her reverie, sat up in her chair, became attentive. ”
The young man accepted the letter and the message, and seemed about to close
the door when a lady issued from one of the front rooms and intervened. Little Anna screamed and thrashed as she was torn
from Lucy’s skirts. "No, no," rejoined Thames; "fly—or I will not answer for your safety. End of Project Gutenberg's Jack Sheppard, by William Harrison Ainsworth
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JACK SHEPPARD ***
***** This file should be named 16215-h. You see, we travelled
second class, and we are in the least known quarter of Paris. . Everything proclaimed the
mischievous propensities of the recent occupants of the chamber. To-day is for
the sights; the other three days—lessons. Without
inquiring into the correctness of the latter part of the story, it may be sufficient to
state, that Black Mary was a person in whom Jack Sheppard thought he could
confide, and, as Edgeworth Bess was incapable of much further exertion, he
determined to leave her in the old woman's care till the following night, while he
shifted for himself and fulfilled his design—for, however rash or hazardous a
project might be, if once conceived, Jack always executed it,—of visiting
Jonathan Wild at his house in the Old Bailey. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness.
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