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The mere enumeration of the obstacles that existed would have deterred any
spirit less daring than Sheppard's from even hazarding the attempt. . ”
“Excellent,” Sir John declared. “Why destroy me, child? There are so many secrets I
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could tell you. ‘I assure you it suits her as Mary would not. This
obstacle removed, he thought he might now make the attempt. ’
‘How shocking,’ Gerald returned, grinning. . As it is not, however, our intention to furnish a
complete catalogue of these curiosities, we shall merely mention that in front of
them lay a large and sharp knife, once the property of the public executioner, and
used by him to dissever the limbs of those condemned to death for high-treason;
together with an immense two-pronged flesh-fork, likewise employed by the
same terrible functionary to plunge the quarters of his victims in the caldrons of
boiling tar and oil. The chief of these was a figure of Liberty, with a cat at
her feet, in allusion to the supposed origin of the fortunes of its former founder,
Sir Richard Whittington.
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