A woman hard to read, who seemed to delight in keeping locked up
behind that fascinating rigidity of feature the intense sensibility which had been
revealed to him, her master, only in occasional and rare moments of enthusiasm. Here was a poor half-naked
creature, with a straw crown on his head, and a wooden sceptre in his hand,
seated on the ground with all the dignity of a monarch on his throne. The night his execution was therefore passed in a most anxious state of mind;
nor was his uneasiness allayed by the appearance of Jonathan Wild, who, after
he had been driven from the roof of the jail, repaired to the Middle Stone Ward
in a fit of ungovernable passion, to vent his rage upon the prisoner, whom he
looked upon as the cause of the present calamity. His brows drew a little nearer
together. Arms, horses, and accoutrements were secretly purchased and distributed; and it
is not improbable that, if the unfortunate prince, in whose behalf these exertions
were made, and who was not deficient in courage, as he proved at the battle of
Malplaquet, had boldly placed himself at the head of his party at an earlier
period, he might have regained the crown of his ancestors.
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