“He was a
friend of your sister’s, was he not?”
“I never heard her mention his name,” she answered. There came to O'Higgins the discouraging knowledge that upon the heels of a
wonderful chase—blindman's buff in the dark—would come a stretch of dull
inaction. "
The stranger was for a moment lost in reflection. Telling the porter
that he would attend to the house himself, he bade him go in search of Jack
Sheppard. He and her father shook hands
manfully. Wood. It dawned upon him that he had been abominably used by Ann
Veronica. This gate, called Newgate, "as being latelier builded
than the rest," continued, for upwards of three hundred years, to be used as a
place of imprisonment for felons and trespassers; at the end of which time,
having grown old, ruinous, and "horribly loathsome," it was rebuilt and enlarged
by the executors of the renowned Sir Richard Whittington, the Lord Mayor of
London: whence it afterwards obtained amongst a certain class of students,
whose examinations were conducted with some strictness at the Old Bailey, and
their highest degrees taken at Hyde-park-corner, the appellation of Whittington's
College, or, more briefly, the Whit.
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