‘What are you after this time, miss?’ asked Jack. 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. ”
“Hah!” He threw his head back. "The key," replied the widow. “Are you a special sort of clergyman,” she said, after a pause, and
looking down her nose at him, “or do you go to the Universities?”
“Oh!” he said, profoundly. “Why, among other things, did I put my knuckles in his neck—deliberately to
hurt him?”
She tried to sound the humorous note. Her disapproval was obvious enough. To
begin with, he struck her as being the most variable person she had ever
encountered.
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