The Project Gutenberg EBook of Jack Sheppard, by William Harrison Ainsworth
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almost no restrictions whatsoever. He started a
dozen stories, but they all ended in the waste-basket. "
"What right have you to suppose this, Sir?" demanded Trenchard, sternly. "
Noticing the draggled condition Jack was in, he then fetched him a bucket of
water, with which Jack cleansed himself as well as he could, and thanking the
honest smith, who would take nothing for his trouble, left the shop. Sepulchre's should pronounce a solemn exhortation upon every criminal on his
way to Tyburn, for which office he was to receive a small stipend. His jawline was
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masculine and severe, only tempered by the soft hazy
color of his eyes. Chapter XXVIII
THE HISSING OF “ALCIDE”
There was a strange and ominous murmur of voices, a shuffling of feet in the
gallery, a silence, which was like the silence before a storm. ’
She moved quickly to the nearest bookcase, and listened intently to the sound
of Jack’s voice. Already the warm sun was drawing from the pines their delicious odour. He knew what he knew. It must be sent home this evening. Then suddenly he seized a new
preparation bottle that stood upon his table and contained the better part of a
week’s work—a displayed dissection of a snail, beautifully done—and hurled it
across the room, to smash resoundingly upon the cemented floor under the
bookcase; then, without either haste or pause, he swept his arm along a shelf of
re-agents and sent them to mingle with the debris on the floor.
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