She waited a
few minutes, then greeted the burly doorman who stood
as the building’s lone sentry. He refrained from pointing out that the case
would be exactly the same if she was not a lady. Sheppard, as I
told you, is in Bedlam, an incurable maniac; while her son is in the New Prison,
whence he will only be removed to Newgate and Tyburn. Wood, whose admiration for masculine beauty was by no means abated,
glanced at the well-proportioned figure of the young man, and made him a very
civil salutation. In this state, he was laid upon a
bench, to sleep off his drunken fit, while his wretched mother, in spite of her
passionate supplications and resistance, was, by Blueskin's command, forcibly
ejected from the house, and driven out of the Mint. At noon the doctor himself arrived. The burden of decision had
been transferred. He waved a cordial
goodbye. The effort to maintain
her self-control was almost superhuman. White calls them. Descending the hollow, or rather excavation,—for it was an old disused clay-pit,
at the bottom of which the cottage was situated,—he speedily succeeded in
arousing the ancient sibyl, and having committed Edgeworth Bess to her care,
with a promise of an abundant reward in case she watched diligently over her
safety, and attended to her comforts till his return,—to all which Black Mary
readily agreed,—he departed with a heart lightened of half its load. So was I, in
fact.
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