A few words passed between him and the thief-taker as the latter came
up; after which, all the party—with the exception of Quilt, who was left on shore
—embarked within the wherry, which was pushed from the strand and rowed
swiftly along the stream—for the tide was in its favour—by a couple of
watermen. The half-nude brown bodies
of the crew informed Ah Cum that the schooner had come up from the South
Seas. ’
‘Yes, but what is it, Jacques?’ demanded the lady. "
"So have we all. The proposal is
so far from being exorbitant, that it should be trebled if I had not a fellow-feeling
in the cause. Wood, when he does return, I'd
send him about his business. The
doors were closed and barricaded, and the mob threatened to burst them open if
Jack was not delivered to them. "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. Parbleu, but
she was a fool.
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