The Project Gutenberg EBook of Jack Sheppard, by William Harrison Ainsworth
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almost no restrictions whatsoever. "The gen'l'man as hired us," replied the chairman. “I’m so glad you’re here, Peter,” she said. ’
‘Will you go back there?’ asked Gerald. His face clouded with anger. “I don’t love him,” said Ann Veronica, getting a gleam. "Well, Jack," he said, after a pause, "are you disposed to go back quietly with
me?"
"You'll ascertain that when you attempt to touch me," rejoined Sheppard,
resolutely. Stay! I'll go myself. Efforts were made to staunch his wounds and
surgical assistance sent for. Ruth took hers in the sea, but was careful never to go beyond her depth because
of the sharks. "To be
sure, it's not surprising the poor little thing should be so marked; for, when I lay
in the women-felons' ward in Newgate, where he first saw the light, or at least
such light as ever finds entrance into that gloomy place, I had nothing, whether
sleeping or waking, but halters, and gibbets, and coffins, and such like horrible
visions, for ever dancing round me! And then, you know, Sir—but, perhaps, you
don't know that little Jack was born, a month before his time, on the very day his
poor father suffered.
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