‘What a fate he finds for me. “Oh,
Veronica!” she said, “to leave your home!”
She had been weeping. And immediately
afterwards the curtain was drawn aside, and disclosed the Satanic countenance of
Jonathan Wild, who had crept into the house unperceived, "I'll tell you, why he
can't go back to his master," cried the thief-taker, with a malignant grin. The above
description of
—the great Figg, by the prize-fighting swains
Sole monarch acknowledged of Mary'bone plains—
may sound somewhat tame by the side of the glowing account given of him by
his gallant biographer, who asserts that "there was a majesty shone in his
countenance, and blazed in his actions, beyond all I ever saw;" but it may,
possibly, convey a more accurate notion of his personal appearance. After all—’
‘Yes, but I do not wish to see him,’ Melusine protested. Besides, how
am I to ride home without them?"
"Don't distress yourself," returned Jack, "you shall walk. On the contrary, he was a universal favourite,
and numbered amongst his intimate acquaintances the choicest spirits of the
time,—Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot, and "all the better brothers.
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