All
the furniture was moved, all the meals were disarranged, and everybody, Ann
Veronica included, appeared in new, bright costumes. By various twistings and turnings, during all which time his
pursuers, who were greatly increased in numbers, kept him in view, he reached
Gray's-Inn-lane. A vein of conviction
mingled with his burlesque. "Mother! dear mother!" cried Jack, folding her to his
breast. Originally built, as its name imports, in a cylindrical form, like a
modern Martello tower, it had undergone, from time to time, so many alterations,
that its symmetry was, in a great measure, destroyed. The cell in which she was confined was about six feet long and
four wide; the walls were scored all over with fantastic designs, snatches of
poetry, short sentences and names,—the work of its former occupants, and of its
present inmate. "I wouldn't force him for the world:
but if he don't tip the stivers, may I be cursed if he don't get a taste of the aqua
pompaginis. Opposite to it was
placed the Jew. But Sheppard was not to be silenced. On the other a wretched engraving of the Chevalier de Saint George, or, as he
was styled in the label attached to the portrait, James the Third, raised a
suspicion that the inmate of the house was not altogether free from some tincture
of Jacobitism.
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