It occasionally troubled the major that Hilary’s staunch loyalty had led
him into hair-raising exploits at Gerald’s side, for he was perfectly aware that
Hilary would not have dreamed of deserting him. As Jack appeared to be
sinking fast, his fetters were removed, his own clothes were returned to him, and
he was allowed a mattress and a scanty supply of bed-linen. "How have you managed to
communicate with him?"
Abraham, who had listened attentively to the foregoing conversation,—not a
word of which escaped him,—now drew in his breath, and brought his ear closer
to the boards. Notwithstanding her emaciation, her features still retained something of a
pleasing expression, and might have been termed beautiful, had it not been for
that repulsive freshness of lip denoting the habitual dram-drinker; a freshness in
her case rendered the more shocking from the almost livid hue of the rest of her
complexion. "By my shalvation, boy," he added, fiercely, "if you don't take your hande
off my peard, I'll sthrangle you. “Annabel;” he moaned. He stopped us, and, addressing Jack in a taunting tone, said, 'Well, I've
been as good as my word!'—'True,' replied Sheppard; 'and I'll be as good as
mine!' And so they parted. The party, then, sat down to a bowl of punch; and, at its
conclusion, Captain Kneebone regretted that an engagement to spend the
evening with Mrs. In this way he crossed one or two public gardens and a
bowling-green,—the neighbourhood of Clerkenwell then abounded in such
places of amusement,—passed the noted Ducking Pond, where Black Mary had
been frequently immersed; and, striking off to the left across the fields, arrived in
a few minutes at his destination.
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