As it is not, however, our intention to furnish a
complete catalogue of these curiosities, we shall merely mention that in front of
them lay a large and sharp knife, once the property of the public executioner, and
used by him to dissever the limbs of those condemned to death for high-treason;
together with an immense two-pronged flesh-fork, likewise employed by the
same terrible functionary to plunge the quarters of his victims in the caldrons of
boiling tar and oil. "What a very remarkable thing it is," he observed, applying to his snuff-box,
"that Thames Darrell, whom we all supposed dead,"—Kneebone in his heart
sincerely wished he had been so,—"should turn out to be alive after all. In any place her beauty would have been an uncommon
thing. ”
“But why——”
Sir John stopped short. I keep it for my own drinking," he
added in a lower tone. Why, Nab, you shake as if you'd got an ague?" he added,
turning to the Jew, whose teeth chattered audibly.
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