"
She kindled with sympathy. ”
“Sorry. She had been married four times: three of
her husbands died of hempen fevers; and the fourth, having been twice
condemned, was saved from the noose by Jonathan Wild, who not only managed
to bring him off, but to obtain for him the situation of under-turnkey in Newgate. It is for that reason that
this novel begins with her there, and neither earlier nor later, for it is the history
of this crisis and its consequences that this novel has to tell. ”
“It was Cheveney!” he said slowly. "
So saying, he dismounted; and flinging his bridle to his companion, and ordering
him to ride off to a little distance, he followed Jack, who had quitted the main
road, and struck into a narrow path opposite the cage. Your own safety—the child's safety—depends
upon your candour. ’
‘Which is exactly what started us off,’ Gerald said to his friend with a grin, as
he gave up his injured hand to the other’s ministrations. Wearied at
length with thinking on the past, and terrified by the prospect of the future, he
threw himself on the straw with which the cage was littered, and endeavoured to
compose himself to slumber. "
Spurlock turned aside his head as he replied: "Words are sometimes useless
things. He thought of his severe attitude towards the girl who was rightly and
with contempt refusing his measured help.
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