After a brief conversation, which Sheppard
sustained with his accustomed liveliness, the old man turned to Bess and
addressed a few words of common-place gallantry to her. ”
“I think I am. "
The little urchin set off, and presently returned with the sexton. ‘You said she was
beautiful. “Where have you been? All these hours I have
been calling for you. Proof
that the scoundrel had risen from the dead—for he was dead to his father!
He glared at the female whose appearance in England had revived those
painful memories—churning unbearably since Brewis Charvill had brought him
the news and put him in the worst of tempers—and the fury spilled out. Only I just
want him. One of her duties, after she
had been taught to read, had been to read aloud after breakfast and before going
to bed. She turned to face him and
he kissed her. I came to beg you instead to do
me the honour of becoming my wife. He was a
thin old man, a wreck in a ruined body, but nothing would induce him to stand in
any other way than as stiffly erect as possible like the soldier he had always
been, even though he was obliged to lean on his silver-handled cane to do so. Sheppard, whose maternal fears drew her in
another direction, hurried off to the Mint. She never knew what became of
her farmer after that. It was bleeding again. "Jack Sheppard had a visitor, I understand, yesterday, and may
make an attempt to escape.
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