‘You see, it is that I have a plan to marry an
Englishman. “So you’re the one my son has been talking about. . ”
Anna shook hands with Brendon—a young man also, but older and more selfpossessed than Sydney Courtlaw. Without
inquiring into the correctness of the latter part of the story, it may be sufficient to
state, that Black Mary was a person in whom Jack Sheppard thought he could
confide, and, as Edgeworth Bess was incapable of much further exertion, he
determined to leave her in the old woman's care till the following night, while he
shifted for himself and fulfilled his design—for, however rash or hazardous a
project might be, if once conceived, Jack always executed it,—of visiting
Jonathan Wild at his house in the Old Bailey. Jack's recapture was speedily made known to all the officers of the jail, and the
Lodge was instantly crowded. "
"He is alive," replied Jack, "I have seen him, and might have conversed with him
if I had chosen. Rank ingratitude, I
call it. ‘Idiot!’
‘Enough, now! Softly, you little termagant,’ he ordered, seizing her wrists to
hold her off. ’
‘But what a perfectly famous adventure. Then
one old crone, short-sighted and shaky-handed, called Ann Veronica “dearie,”
and made some remark, obscure and slangy, of which the spirit rather than the
words penetrated to her understanding.
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