Taking up a couple of large
stones which lay near, Jack tried to beat the round basils of the fetters into an
oval form, so as to enable him to slip his heels through them. Aware of the footman hovering, and the hackney coachman’s curious eyes
looking down from his box, Gerald leaned a little towards her and spoke in a
lowered tone. Jackson, mean time, produced a pocket-book; and, after deliberately sharpening
the point of a pencil, began to write on a blank leaf. He never finished his sentence. And if one were to love some
one very much, it’s just so that one would be blindest, just when one wanted
most to see. "
"You are an angel, I say," continued the poor maniac; "and my Jack would have
been like you, if he had lived. "I wouldn't give a betel-nut for a
man who wouldn't stick to his guns, if he believed himself in the right. Nothing disheartened by this survey, Jack set to work upon the lock, which he
attacked with all his implements;—now attempting to pick it with the nail;—
now to wrench it off with the bar: but all without effect. .
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