The arrangement had been made by the town
matchmaker, a frightening old oak of a man. Gerald at once lowered his voice to that intimate level again, and leaned
towards her. Some years ago, in 1715, just
before the Rebellion, I was rash enough to league myself with the Jacobite party,
and by Wild's machinations got clapped into Newgate, whence I was glad to
escape with my head upon my shoulders. She
became aware that at regular intervals a light flashed upon her face and a
bodiless eye regarded her, and this, as the night wore on, became a torment. It is very bad. "
"Nay, if you're bent upon this folly," observed Wild, who appeared to have his
own reasons for humouring the lad, "I shan't hinder you. I have healed and
I am still your wife!\" She looked at him desperately, his
eyes illuminated by firelight. The coolies proceeded at a swinging, mincing trot, which gave to the
suspended seat a dancing action similar to that of a suddenly agitated hangingspring of a birdcage. What befell Jack Sheppard in the Turner's House
408
XXII. Quilt was not
long in following his example.
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