I put
my foot down like—like adamant. I
know I am undeserving of your bounty; but if I were to tell you what hardships I
have undergone—to what frightful extremities I have been reduced—and to
what infamy I have submitted, to earn a scanty subsistence for this child's sake,
—if you could feel what it is to stand alone in the world as I do, bereft of all who
have ever loved me, and shunned by all who have ever known me, except the
worthless and the wretched,—if you knew (and Heaven grant you may be spared
the knowledge!) how much affliction sharpens love, and how much more dear to
me my child has become for every sacrifice I have made for him,—if you were
told all this, you would, I am sure, pity rather than reproach me, because I cannot
at once consent to a separation, which I feel would break my heart. "
Jonathan made no answer, but snatching a torch from a bystander, jumped into
the trench and commenced a diligent search. She read on and on, now thrilled by the
swiftly moving drama, now enraptured by the tender passages of love. "I have dreamed that I shall see him before I die," she rejoined. “Yes. "Lost no time on the road—eh!—I didn't expect you till to-morrow at the
earliest. I too,
Anna, have watched and read of your success with—I must confess it—some
misgiving. "
The young man thanked his informant, and was about to follow his instructions,
when the other called after him——
"I say, master, did you ever hear tell of Mr. Ireton," observed the
chief turnkey of Westminster Gatehouse, as he helped himself to his third glass
of punch; "but I never saw one like Jack Sheppard. He is Jacques. He took a handful of the gravelly mud, with which the
platform was covered, and threw the small pebbles, one by one, towards the
gleam. "I was right," replied Jack, returning as coolly as if nothing had happened.
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