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. It opened and a nun’s head popped out. It was also cold, and dark,
for there had been no time to light the lantern. I once might have married you for your beauty,—now I marry you
for your wealth. He
never cries nor frets, as children generally do, but lies at my bosom, or on my
knee, as quiet and as gentle as you see him now. And beyond this, Lady
Lescelles, as you must know, recent events have set a good many people’s
tongues wagging, and I am quite determined to live down all this scandal before
I think of marrying any one. F. "
"For shame, Mr. I wish she wouldn’t look like that at us over her glasses. ‘How so?’ he asked, and she noted that he allowed his pistol to dangle a little
from his fingers. I can vouch
for that. The person, shortly afterwards ushered into the room, seemed by the imperfect
light,—for the evening was advancing, and the chamber darkened by heavy
drapery,—to be a middle-sized middle-aged man, of rather vulgar appearance,
but with a very shrewd aspect. Nothing, in short, portable or valuable was left.
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