He was followed, more leisurely, by the prisoners; and,
during their ascent, Jack Sheppard made a second attempt to escape by ducking
suddenly down, and endeavouring to pass under his conductor's legs. Skirting the noble
gardens of Montague House, (now, we need scarcely say, the British Museum,)
the party speedily reached Great Russell Street,—a quarter described by Strype,
in his edition of old Stow's famous Survey, "as being graced with the best
buildings in all Bloomsbury, and the best inhabited by the nobility and gentry,
especially the north side, as having gardens behind the houses, and the prospect
of the pleasant fields up to Hampstead and Highgate; insomuch that this place,
by physicians, is esteemed the most healthful of any in London. Ruth wore a printed cotton kimono. He looked eager and flushed and troubled. ”
“Poor you!” said Ann Veronica. "You didn't spend it?"
"I never intended to spend it—any more than I really intended to steal it. ’
‘He said!’ Melusine uttered scornfully. But one day he came to me. Very slowly, very fearfully, she turned her
head. Sheppard," replied Jonathan, mysteriously. ‘I’m a soldier, missie. Taking this for encouragement, her suitor proceeded still more
extravagantly. . If it is that you
need these things, then of course we will go there.
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