Wood, despair will come over me; and, dear as this babe is to me, far dearer
than my own wretched life, which I would lay down for him any minute, I have
prayed to Heaven to remove him, rather than he should grow up to be a man, and
be exposed to his father's temptations—rather than he should live as wickedly
and die as disgracefully as his father. Before he re-entered
the prison, he hesitated from a doubt whether he was not fearfully increasing his
risk of capture; but, convinced that he had no other alternative, he went on. 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. She rested for a half hour in heaven
on earth, feeling herself drift in and out of sleep. You have taken even my knife. "
"Well," replied her son; "and you spurn the proposal. “Your brother has gone?” she asked Sydney, between the courses. The mere enumeration of the obstacles that existed would have deterred any
spirit less daring than Sheppard's from even hazarding the attempt. There were probably others buried around the
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house, she had seen a suspicious working refrigerator in
the back of the garage mess, but she wasn’t about to
check it out. She helped herself to the
remainder of the slightly congealed bacon, and reverted to the problem of getting
her luggage out of the house.
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