”
“Look here!” said Capes, “what on earth do you want? What do you think we
can do? Don’t you know what men are, and what life is?—to come to me and
talk to me like this!”
“I know—something, anyhow. ’
‘Ah, so you did come here to find someone,’ Gerald responded eagerly. In any place her beauty would have been an uncommon
thing. ” She turned
abruptly at right angles to the path they followed. Jonathan
looked in that direction, and beheld the fugitives riding off in triumph. She was quite unconcerned. Two large wards were situated in the Gate; one of which, the Stone Ward,
appropriated to the master debtors, looked towards Holborn; the other called the
Stone Hall, from a huge stone standing in the middle of it, upon which the irons
of criminals under sentence of death were knocked off previously to their being
taken to the place of execution, faced Newgate Street. ”
“Give me something to do,” said Ann Veronica, interrupting her persuasions
at last. She could learn nothing of her son, and only
obtained one solitary piece of information, which added to, rather than alleviated
her misery,—namely, that Jonathan Wild had paid a secret visit to the Cross
Shovels. But Ann Veronica had still to get to her
chief topic. “Thank you—and good-bye.
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