"To be
sure, it's not surprising the poor little thing should be so marked; for, when I lay
in the women-felons' ward in Newgate, where he first saw the light, or at least
such light as ever finds entrance into that gloomy place, I had nothing, whether
sleeping or waking, but halters, and gibbets, and coffins, and such like horrible
visions, for ever dancing round me! And then, you know, Sir—but, perhaps, you
don't know that little Jack was born, a month before his time, on the very day his
poor father suffered. You left Hong-Kong at night, by way of the Pearl River, and arrived in
Canton the next morning. She would flee
to the wild fastnesses, the places where there were no
overarching systems of any use, where she could blend
with the unstable populace and kill in relative peace. Quite trying of him not to be there when he is wanted. "
"You are heiress to the Trenchard property," rejoined Jonathan, "one of the
largest estates in Lancashire. I
cannot do it, David. "
"To be sure! Nothing entertains me so much. Perhaps you'll give me in return some token, by which I may
remind you of this occurrence, in case we meet again. "
"Your prisoner!" echoed Jonathan, derisively. “I don’t know,” said Ann Veronica; “I think I am. “It is unimportant,” she said. The
infant was rescued from a watery-grave by an honest mechanic, who has since
brought him up as his own son. If you had not brought your companion
here, it would not have happened.
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