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. 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. Rows of roasted duck, brilliantly varnished; luscious vegetables, which
she had been warned against; baskets of melon seed and water-chestnuts; men
working in teak and blackwood; fan makers and jade cutters; eggs preserved in
what appeared to her as petrified muck; bird's nests and shark fins. ‘Cover her, men. "
"Pshaw!" cried Thames. “No. How long shall I be kept in this bed?"
"That's particularly up to you. Out of these he selected a faded parchment and restored
the rest to safety. With one or two exceptions, there were no pews;
and, as the intercourse with London was then but slight, the seats were occupied
almost exclusively by the villagers. “And of course
you are my niece just as Annabel is, although I am sorry to learn that your
conduct has been much less discreet than hers. Or had
you not noticed?’ He sneered.
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