However this may be, such was the ill report of the place that few passed
along the Old Bailey without bestowing a glance of fearful curiosity at its dingy
walls, and wondering what was going on inside them; while fewer still, of those
who paused at the door, read, without some internal trepidation, the formidable
name—inscribed in large letters on its bright brass-plate—of JONATHAN
WILD. You thanked me tersely, then, barely noticing my
existence you went right back to your conversation! I was
somewhat crushed but my spirits were lifted when the
butcher revealed who your husband-to-be was. Close behind him stood the tall gaunt figure of Marvel, with his large bony
hands, his scraggy neck, and ill-favoured countenance. ”
“Personally,” he went on, “I must confess to a great disappointment. The
packets were hastily broken open; and, while Wood was absorbed in the perusal
of the despatch addressed to him by Sir Rowland, Thames sought out, and found
the letter which he had been prevented from finishing on the fatal night at
Jonathan Wild's. ‘You wish a reason for jealousy? Eh bien, you may have it. Besides, I
don't think he's going to ask, if that is what you are
getting at. Essentially the talk was a mixture of fragments
of sentences heard, of passages read, or arguments indicated rather than stated,
and all of it was served in a sauce of strange enthusiasm, thin yet intense. "My own father!"
Queerly the room and its objects receded and vanished; and there intervened a
series of mental pictures that so long as she lived would ever be recurring. “Do not look so uncomfortable, both of you,” she begged. Of course, it was ridiculous, this
inclination to assist the fugitive, based as it was upon an intangible university
idea.
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