With delicate touch he rescued
all that was possible of them, and made a careful little parcel. ‘Yes, dear Nan, a flirtation. ‘You are Mrs Ibstock, I think,’ she said eagerly. The prospect of the
gallows would never deter me from taking to the road, if I were so inclined. Up to this
moment, hopes had been entertained of a respite, strong representations in his
favour having been made in the highest quarter; but now that his fate seemed
sealed, the curiosity of the sight-seeing public to behold him was redoubled. The moment
she entered the room and he rose, she felt that she was immediately consigned to
the circle of strangers; and it emptied her heart of its joy and filled it with
diffidence. There was no longer any risk in
association with her. If I can’t talk anywhere else—I DO want an understanding. He had
saluted her with elaborate civility, his eyes distended with indecipherable
meanings. Their duty was to see who came
in, or went out; to lock up, and open the different wards; to fetter such prisoners
as were ordered to be placed in irons; to distribute the allowances of provision;
and to maintain some show of decorum; for which latter purpose they were
allowed to carry whips and truncheons. Kneebone, whose interest was not inconsiderable with the
leaders of his faction, obtained an appointment as captain in a regiment of
infantry, on the conditions above specified. Over an old crazy bedstead was thrown a squalid,
patchwork counterpane; and upon the counterpane lay a black hood and scarf, a
pair of bodice of the cumbrous form in vogue at the beginning of the last
century, and some other articles of female attire.
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