"I allude to an individual, who has since acquired an infamous notoriety as a
thief-taker; but who, in those days, was himself the associate of thieves. ’
‘Parbleu,’ exclaimed the girl, jumping up in some dudgeon. On that morning the death warrant had arrived from Windsor, ordering
Sheppard for execution, (since his capture by Jonathan Wild in Bedlam, as
related in a former chapter, Jack had been tried, convicted, and sentenced to
death,) together with three other malefactors on the following Friday. “But your sister?” he asked. After severely examining Austin, and finding it proved, on the testimony of his
fellow-jailers, that he could not have aided Jack in his flight, Jonathan retracted
his harsh sentence, and even went so far as to say that he would act as mediator
between him and the governor. This
was the bitterest hour he had ever known. And a custom had grown up of a general tea at four o’clock,
under the auspices of a Miss Garvice, a tall and graceful girl of distinguished
intellectual incompetence, in whom the hostess instinct seemed to be abnormally
developed. I don’t think that the rest of the people here like
us very well, do they, Arthur, so we’re obliged to be friends. I want to be with you. Why may I not be your friend? Somehow or other I feel
that you have been driven into a false position. He filled her
glass with champagne. Some one was standing beside him.
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