And then scratched it out and wrote instead,
“Gérard”. If you'd read your husband's dying
speech, you'd know that he laid his death at Jonathan's door,—and with reason
too, as I can testify. Curses
light on the horse!" he added, seizing the bridle of his steed, who continued
snorting and shivering, as if still under the influence of some unaccountable
alarm; "what can ail him?"
"I know what ails him, your honour," rejoined the groom, riding up as he spoke;
"he's seen somethin' not o' this world. I told him I would bring him to
the gallows, and I was as good as my word. She could smell his cologne
underneath his collar, or perhaps his aftershave. During all their long comradeship he had
never so much as ventured to hold her fingers. ‘You’re right. Spare me, and I'll be quiet—quiet
—quiet!"
"Mother!" said Jack, advancing towards her. It was dangerous for her
to dare approaching him and she knew the tremendous
risk she was taking, but a part of her demanded that he be
found. He gave her
silence in return. "From that door," continued the thief-taker, pointing to the gloomy portal of the
prison opposite which they were standing, "the condemned are taken to Tyburn. "
"And you want me to find a minister?" she asked, with ready comprehension. "
Here a murmur of amazement arose from the assemblage outside.
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