‘You see,’ he pursued blandly, ‘I lead a life of the most intolerable boredom. But if Misther Wild were to
find out that I thwarted his schames——"
"I'd not be in your skin for a trifle," interrupted Quilt, who having secured
Sheppard, and delivered him to Abraham, now approached them unawares; "and
it shan't be my fault if he don't hear of it. “Well, I don’t think you told him as much as that, did you?” Lady Lescelles
asked. On that morning the death warrant had arrived from Windsor, ordering
Sheppard for execution, (since his capture by Jonathan Wild in Bedlam, as
related in a former chapter, Jack had been tried, convicted, and sentenced to
death,) together with three other malefactors on the following Friday. I would
have liked to know. But it was only
when that damned scoundrel nearly spitted you in the chapel—’ He broke off
and, to her intense satisfaction she saw he was not as much in command of
himself as he would have her believe.
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