This
request, however, was refused; and he was told that the only way in which he
could entitle himself to his Majesty's clemency would be by discovering who
had abetted him in his last escape; the strongest suspicions being entertained that
he had not affected it alone. Of this boy she had only caught a
glimpse;—but that glimpse was sufficient to satisfy her it was her son,—and, if
she could have questioned her own instinctive love, she could not question her
antipathy, when she beheld, partly concealed by a pillar immediately in the rear
of the woollen-draper, the dark figure and truculent features of Jonathan Wild. Then it was the
woman herself who was changed. ”
Part 2
Then it was the expostulations really began. He seemed to possess infinite reserves of patience
when she refused him or purposely tried to bait and anger
him, but his patience only made him seem more sinister. Before many minutes elapsed, he had picked a large hole in the plaster,
which showered down in a cloud of dust; and breaking off several laths, caught
hold of a beam, by which he held with one hand, until with the other he
succeeded, not without some difficulty, in forcing out one of the tiles.
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