Jack was so harrassed that he felt half inclined to stand at bay. At length, about three o'clock, as the first glimmer of dawn became visible
through the barred casements of the round-house, the rattling of bolts and chains
at the outer door told that some one was admitted. If Winifred remained silent, her looks would have disarmed a person of less
assurance than the woollen-draper. Wood
dandled his little charge to and fro, after the most approved nursery fashion,
essaying at the same time the soothing influence of an infantine melody proper
to the occasion; but, failing in his design, he soon lost all patience, and being, as
we have before hinted, rather irritable, though extremely well-meaning, he lifted
the unhappy bantling in the air, and shook him with so much good will, that he
had well-nigh silenced him most effectually. I
speak no harm of her. Cut it as short as you can. Earles’ office, “was
your last resource. ‘Woof!’ uttered Trodger, gazing at the lady in some awe. End of Project Gutenberg's Jack Sheppard, by William Harrison Ainsworth
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