To recreate the era, I deliberately tried to avoid creating a
thinly disguised bodice ripper where an
“empowered” woman mouthed off to prospective
suitors in jerkins and tights, in other words, a typical
romance novel. But Bess could
scarcely summon resolution enough to hazard the experiment; and it was only on
Jack's urgent intreaties, and even threats, that she could be prevailed on to trust
herself to the frail tenure of the rope he had prepared. Gerald? But could he be here so
quickly?
She hastily dabbed at her eyes, thankful for the darkness that she saw had
come on outside unnoticed, dimming the room. ’
‘Don’t talk soft,’ begged Martha. "I'm afraid, Jack, you'll come to the gallows," observed the smith; "buth if you
do, I'll go to Tyburn to see you. ”
He shook his head, and threw open the door of a great dimly-lit apartment on the
ground floor. Every now and then her general presence became radiantly dazzling
in his eyes; she would appear in the street coming toward him, a surprise, so fine
and smiling and welcoming was she, so expanded and illuminated and living, in
contrast with his mere expectation. Coffee à la Turque wasn't so bad; but a guy couldn't soak his breakfast toast in it. Maggot, laughing. One or
two of the tables were occupied by groups of fat frowzy women in flat caps, with
rings on their thumbs, and baskets by their sides; and no one who had listened
for a single moment to their coarse language and violent abuse of each other,
would require to be told they were fish-wives from Billingsgate. Gosse took a step or two towards the centre of the room.
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