’
He sighed elaborately. ‘After all the threats you’ve made, that is hardly
fair. Not choosing to hazard so great a fall, Jack turned to examine the building, to
see whether any more favourable point of descent presented itself, but could
discover nothing but steep walls, without a single available projection. The raising of
twenty-five pounds was a task altogether beyond her powers. Somewhere you may stumble upon a
clew to his identity. This he
accomplished by holding the chain that connected them firmly between his teeth,
and squeezing his fingers as closely together as possible, succeeded in drawing
his wrists through the manacles. Even were she to
get an opportunity to scream, it would be some time before such a call,
unprecedented though it might be, brought the nuns so much out of their
absorption that they interrupted their prayer to investigate. . Chapter XXII
AN OLD FOOL
Lady Ferringhall made room for him on the sofa by her side. Hitchings, who seem to be absolutely engrossed
in one another, and a boy of about seventeen, who no sooner got here than he
discovered that he wanted to see a man in the promenade and disappeared. The bed was hard
beyond any experience of hers, the bed-clothes coarse and insufficient, the cell at
once cold and stuffy. There were game watermen and game lightermen, heavy horsemen
and light horsemen, scuffle-hunters, and long-apron men, lumpers, journeymen
coopers, mud-larks, badgers, and ratcatchers—a race of dangerous vermin
recently, in a great measure, extirpated by the vigilance of the Thames Police,
but at this period flourishing in vast numbers.
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