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‘I don’t even know your granddaughter, ma’am. She had viewed them askance, and without
exchanging ideas with any one else in the world about them. Phillips Oppenheim
*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANNA THE ADVENTURESS ***
***** This file should be named 26596-h. Oh God!
my limbs fail me. You may well say it's impossible! His Majesty's jail
of Newgate is admirably guarded, I must say. "
"How!" ejaculated Trenchard, starting back and drawing his sword. "Any price was better than your head. The policeman raised his voice, slightly
agitated. "Well, Sir?" cried the other, eagerly. But if Misther Wild were to
find out that I thwarted his schames——"
"I'd not be in your skin for a trifle," interrupted Quilt, who having secured
Sheppard, and delivered him to Abraham, now approached them unawares; "and
it shan't be my fault if he don't hear of it. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer,
driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows
from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some
deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope
of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to
horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when
I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this
drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt.
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