In
consequence of the encouragement thus offered to dishonesty, and the security
afforded to crime, this quarter of the Borough of Southwark was accounted (at
the period of our narrative) the grand receptacle of the superfluous villainy of the
metropolis. Wood's dwelling,—a plain, substantial, commodious farm-house. ’
Gerald tutted. “I’d rather go as a chorus-girl,” she said. Something changed for her. On that morning the death warrant had arrived from Windsor, ordering
Sheppard for execution, (since his capture by Jonathan Wild in Bedlam, as
related in a former chapter, Jack had been tried, convicted, and sentenced to
death,) together with three other malefactors on the following Friday. ‘So it is that you have made Jacques betray me. "
"No; another still more extraordinary. Of what use was the temporary set-back to memory, when it
always returned with redoubled poignancy?
Then came another thought, astonishing. Wild," he
added, laughing, "it must be a stronger prison than Willesden cage that can hold
me. Even though you cursed your own
existence, I had not been so joyous in a thousand years!
Finally, he took the family and remaining servants
away to the Manor.
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