Without
inquiring into the correctness of the latter part of the story, it may be sufficient to
state, that Black Mary was a person in whom Jack Sheppard thought he could
confide, and, as Edgeworth Bess was incapable of much further exertion, he
determined to leave her in the old woman's care till the following night, while he
shifted for himself and fulfilled his design—for, however rash or hazardous a
project might be, if once conceived, Jack always executed it,—of visiting
Jonathan Wild at his house in the Old Bailey. The knight stood upon his
defence; but he would unquestionably have been torn in pieces by the savage
hounds, if a shower of oaths, seconded by a vigorous application of kicks and
blows from their master, had not driven them growling off. ’
‘You always were an old sobersides, even as a boy,’ retorted the major, who
was close on thirty now, yet as ripe for excitement as he had been on receiving
his first commission at sixteen. Don't suppose," she
added, with a scornful glance at her helpmate, "that I would pay him the
compliment of thinking he could possibly be the father of such a boy as you. That’s
why it’s so important I should take my own line now. There came a wild rush of anthropological lore into her brain, a flare of
indecorous humor. My honor has been in
my scientific work and public discussion and the things I write. I must have something in hand. The red glare fell upon the slimy brick-work, and tinged the
inky waters below. ‘None of them means anything to you at all?
How odd.
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