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. Lucy snatched it up and put it in
her pack. And
also I have this Prudence. The pouting cherry lips were slightly parted
and the very faintest of panting breaths, together with the quick rise and fall of
an alluring bosom, betrayed her fear. Ah Cum was not a sailor, but he knew his water-front. She is no more English than that set of beggars over there. And for my part, if I were inclined to exercise my benevolence at all, it
should be in favour of some more deserving object than that whining,
hypocritical Magdalene. ’
The breathy laugh came, and Madame Valade abandoned her fan. Taking the light, they then proceeded along the passage.
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