Another charge was then
brought against them by the Captain, who accused them of kidnapping him when
a boy, and placing him in the hands of a Dutch skipper, named Van Galgebrok,
with instructions to throw him overboard, which was done, though he afterwards
escaped. How Jack Sheppard was again captured
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XV. Besides, didn't I
tell you that I giv' him as good as he brought—and better! I jist touched him with
my 'Evenin' Star,' as I call this shillelah," said the watchman, flourishing an
immense bludgeon, the knob of which appeared to be loaded with lead, "and, by
Saint Patrick! down he cum'd like a bullock. Perhaps you'll give me in return some token, by which I may
remind you of this occurrence, in case we meet again. Annabel had spoken calmly enough and steadily, but his brain refused at first to
accept the full meaning of her words. You've heard the news, I suppose?"
"That the death warrant's arrived," returned Edgeworth Bess, bursting into a
flood of tears; "oh, yes! we've heard it. Only one thing emerged with
any reasonable clarity in her mind at once, and that was that unless she was
saved from drowning by an unmarried man, in which case the ceremony is
unavoidable, or totally destitute of under-clothing, and so driven to get a
trousseau, in which hardship a trousseau would certainly be “ripping,” marriage
was an experience to be strenuously evaded.
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