We’ll have Trodger check it out later. Ho-hum!
CHAPTER IX
The Hong-Kong packet lay alongside the warehouse frontage. They had escaped from the New
Prison, it is true; but the wall of Clerkenwell Bridewell, by which that jail was
formerly surrounded, and which was more than twenty feet high, and protected
by formidable and bristling chevaux de frise, remained to be scaled. "Ay, ay," rejoined Sheppard; "he may do what he pleases,—hang me, if he thinks
proper,—if you wish it. “Now I should like to know,” she said, looking at him with a quiet smile, “what
you are doing here? It is not a particularly inspiring neighbourhood for walking
about by yourself. Chapter XVII
THE CHANGE IN “ALCIDE”
“By-the-bye,” his neighbour asked him languidly, “who is our hostess?”
“Usually known, I believe, as Lady Ferringhall,” Ennison answered, “unless I
have mixed up my engagement list and come to the wrong house. This horrible piece of deformity, who acted as drawer and cellarman, and was a
constant butt to the small wits of the jail, was nicknamed the Black Dog of
Newgate. ’
‘Of course he will release you,’ Gerald said at once, concealing his delighted
satisfaction at this unexpected piece of good fortune. Love anywhere. A cold shiver came over her.
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