All the jailers declared it utterly
impossible he could have accomplished his astonishing task unaided; but who
had lent him assistance was a question they were unable to answer. She
glanced at him. “I’m sorry, ma’am, to seem the cause of any disturbance, but this,” he pointed to
Anna, “is my wife. Just a friendly polite suggestion. He's settling an account in the house. ’
‘I do not lie to you now,’ she said, near frantic at the thought of losing him. She was civil, but
she was obviously impatient to know his errand. It is a very good English name, no? But who is she?’
‘Mrs Sindlesham, I should say,’ said Mrs Ibstock, correcting herself. I swore I would
bring your husband to the gallows,—would plunge you in such want, such
distress, that you should have no alternative but the last frightful resource of
misery,—and I also swore, that if you had a son he should share the same fate as
his father. He was unusually absurd and ready, and all the time it seemed to Ann
Veronica as a delightful possibility, as a thing not indeed to be entertained
seriously, but to be half furtively felt, that he was being so agreeable because she
had come back again. “Amazing. Jack then intimated his intention of
visiting Winifred's chamber, in which several articles of value were known to be
kept; but as, notwithstanding his reckless character, he still retained a feeling of
respect for the object of his boyish affections, he would not suffer Blueskin to
accompany him, so he commanded him to keep watch over the sleepers—strictly
enjoining him, however, to do them no injury. In spite of the tumultuous joy which agitated him, the bridegroom could not
prevent the intrusion of some saddening thoughts, as he reflected upon the
melancholy scene which he had so recently witnessed in the same place. ‘Because she, naturally enough, does not consider that it is in any way my
affair.
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