’
‘Success?’ Her eyes narrowed. Yes!" she screamed, "these
are his father's features! It is—it is my son!"
"Mother!" cried Thames; "are you, indeed, my mother?"
"I am, indeed—my own sweet boy!" she sobbed, pressing him tenderly to her
breast. "A hundred pounds if you do it
quickly. “Do you think that it is kind of you, Miss Pellissier,” he said, almost roughly, “to
ignore your friends so? In your heart you know quite well that you could pay
Sydney or me no greater compliment than to give us just a little of your
confidence. As for me, if they
don’t at least help a little with college I’m leaving and I’m
never coming back. Can't I make you understand? Perhaps it sounds
cruel to you; but we women often have to be cruel defensively. I mean—I
mean to do what I can. “I may seem unduly—
anxious. ’
‘Gosse,’ corrected Lucilla. ”
She looked at him wistfully, but with some unwilling doubt in her wrinkled
forehead. But, as this produced no effect, and did
not even elicit a groan, the prisoner was carried back to Newgate. A wide terrace then led to large iron gates,' over which were
placed the two celebrated figures of Raving and Melancholy Madness, executed
by the elder Cibber, and commemorated by Pope in the Dunciad, in the wellknown lines:—
"Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne,
And laughs to think Monroe would take her down,
Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand,
Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand. This person—this Jonathan Wild, whom I
beheld for the first time, scarcely an hour ago, in Wych Street, is—I know not
why—my enemy.
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