Manning think?” said her
aunt. "To be
sure, it's not surprising the poor little thing should be so marked; for, when I lay
in the women-felons' ward in Newgate, where he first saw the light, or at least
such light as ever finds entrance into that gloomy place, I had nothing, whether
sleeping or waking, but halters, and gibbets, and coffins, and such like horrible
visions, for ever dancing round me! And then, you know, Sir—but, perhaps, you
don't know that little Jack was born, a month before his time, on the very day his
poor father suffered. Manning relinquished his cup, and looked meaningly at Ann Veronica. Afterward he stole out of the room with the bloodstained
sheet to boast her virginity to his brothers and father,
which only truly mattered because she was beautiful, her
mother had said. The above
description of
—the great Figg, by the prize-fighting swains
Sole monarch acknowledged of Mary'bone plains—
may sound somewhat tame by the side of the glowing account given of him by
his gallant biographer, who asserts that "there was a majesty shone in his
countenance, and blazed in his actions, beyond all I ever saw;" but it may,
possibly, convey a more accurate notion of his personal appearance. I have been around them for long enough. Hill, I hope you won’t find everything cold. We shall both, I hope, live to enjoy our shares—long after Thames
Darrell is forgotten—ha! ha! A third of your estate I accept.
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