In this way, Jack was brought back to Newgate, and again chained down in the
Middle Ward. Lee-o-no-ra. Here he was preparing to leap over
the hedge into the fields on the left, when he was intercepted by two horsemen,
who, hearing the shouts, rode up and struck at him with the butt-ends of their
heavy riding-whips. But for all that, it offered relief; his brain, stupefied by the fumes, grew
dull, and conscience lost its edge to bite. A garrison called to
arms at dead of night on the sudden approach of the enemy, could not have been
more expeditiously, or effectually aroused. But when Ruth's hand fell gently upon his bony head, he knew that
no one in this house would ever offer him a kick. “The conventions do not matter one
little bit. “You must arrest me!” she gasped, breathlessly, insisting insanely on a point
already carried; “you shall!”
The police-station at the end seemed to Ann Veronica like a refuge from
unnamable disgraces. But a total stranger, a man you never saw twentyfour hours ago! It can't be thought of. It was scarcely likely that she would have accepted
his aid. She had a feeling at his departure as of an immense cavity, of something
enormously gone; she could not tell whether it was infinite regret or infinite
relief. Let me see my child, if he is really here?"
"Behold him!" returned Trenchard, taking Thames (who had been a mute, but
deeply-interested, witness of the scene) by the hand, and leading him towards
her.
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