“How would you prevent it?” she
asked. ”
“I cannot do it!” he cried hoarsely. Without
inquiring into the correctness of the latter part of the story, it may be sufficient to
state, that Black Mary was a person in whom Jack Sheppard thought he could
confide, and, as Edgeworth Bess was incapable of much further exertion, he
determined to leave her in the old woman's care till the following night, while he
shifted for himself and fulfilled his design—for, however rash or hazardous a
project might be, if once conceived, Jack always executed it,—of visiting
Jonathan Wild at his house in the Old Bailey. “My dear boy,” she exclaimed. “We banished his experiments to here in the basement
from then on. Monsieur Valade heaved a gusty sigh, and Gerald, with heavy diplomacy and
a forced heartiness of manner, turned the subject. The nuns wore their habit, and said all their offices, and
went about their tasks unobtrusively, relieving the poor and needy and tending
the sick. The bars dropped noiselessly and slowly down, till the
chain tightened at the staple. Kneebone cordially on the
shoulder, and began to laugh as heartily as any of them.
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