‘Jacques? Oh, that is news of the very finest. "
"That's easily said. "
"Enough," returned Jackson, extending his hand; "and if I've expressed myself
warmly, I'm sorry for it likewise. Lord, what a state I was in! Night after night I sat
there, I watched her come in, I watched her go. "But you've done well to
trust me. No! That was impossible. ‘Valade, if you don’t mind. Only old
librarians and Shirley Temples say that. To tell Ruth anything, it would be necessary to tell her
everything; and I cannot and you must not. "I'm your dupe no longer. "Curse you! Where are the bailiffs? Rot you! have you lost your tongue? Devil
seize you! you could bawl loud enough a moment ago!"
"Silence, Blueskin!" interposed an authoritative voice, immediately behind the
ruffian. "I haven't any answer for that; but I'm going back after her. However this may be, such was the ill report of the place that few passed
along the Old Bailey without bestowing a glance of fearful curiosity at its dingy
walls, and wondering what was going on inside them; while fewer still, of those
who paused at the door, read, without some internal trepidation, the formidable
name—inscribed in large letters on its bright brass-plate—of JONATHAN
WILD. ‘You are jealous!’
‘Yes,’ he agreed simply. A narrow entry, formed by two low walls, communicated with the main
thoroughfare; and in this passage, under the cover of a penthouse, stood Wood,
with his little burthen, to whom we shall now return.
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