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"If you doubt my word, woman," replied the carpenter's wife, coldly, "ask Mr. Wood." "I know you'll contradict it, Sir," said the widow, looking at Wood as if she dreaded to have her fears confirmed, "I know you will." "I wish I could, Joan," returned the carpenter, sadly. Mrs. Sheppard let fall her basket. "My son," she murmured, wringing her hands piteously , "my son the companion of thieves!
"If you don't get back quickly, Lucy," observed a bystander, "Jack Sheppard will be in the house before you." This sally occasioned a general laugh. "If Jack would come to my house, I'd contrive to hide him," remarked a buxom dame. "Poor fellow! I'm glad he has escaped." "Jack seems to be a great favourite with the fair sex," observed a smirking grocer's apprentice.
"Never," replied Sheppard bitterly. "My friends need not fear my return. They shall hear of me no more. Under another name, not my own hateful one, I will strive to distinguish myself in some foreign service, and win myself a reputation, or perish honourably. But I will never never return." "I will not attempt to combat your resolution, Jack," returned Thames, after a pause.
His features were, in themselves, perfect; it was only his cloudy, uncouth, and coarse expression that disfigured them. So much strength residing in so spare a frame was proof sufficient of the accuracy of his shape. He must have been built somewhat after the pattern of Jack Sheppard; but the famous housebreaker, we may be certain, was no lout.
'tis thine to gild with fame Th' obscure, and raise the humble name; To make the form elude the grave, And Sheppard from oblivion save! Apelles Alexander drew Cesar is to Aurelius due; Cromwell in Lilly's works doth shine, And Sheppard, Thornhill, lives in thine!"
I got the Duke's at once; there was a lordly kind of ring in it that could never be forgotten; and I got presently my Lord Grey's voice; and then one with a drawl in it which I had never heard before; and then one that had no special characteristic, but was a little slow. These were the four whom I heard speak, besides Mr. Sheppard once. The conversation I heard was somewhat as follows.
"Come, let us walk," Colonel Zane said abruptly, and, with Mr. Sheppard, followed the girls down the path. He escorted them to the fort, showed a long room with little squares cut in the rough-hewn logs, many bullet holes, fire-charred timbers, and dark stains, terribly suggestive of the pain and heroism which the defense of that rude structure had cost.
You've a good deal to go through to-night." "Ah!" exclaimed Mrs. Sheppard, "are you come to renew your terrible proposals?" "I'm come to execute my threats," replied Wild. "To-night you shall be my wedded wife." "I will die first," replied Mrs. Sheppard. "You may die afterwards as soon as you please," retorted Jonathan; "but live till then you shall. I've sent for the priest." "Mercy!" cried Mrs.
No word of confession crossed his lips, and he would still entertain the officers of the law with joke and epigram. Thus he won over a handful of the Guard, and, begging for solitude, he straightway set about escape with a courage and an address which Jack Sheppard might have envied.
"He was hanged that left his drink behind, you know, master," rejoined Sheppard. "Here's King James the Third, and confusion to his enemies!" "Very well," said the carpenter, sitting down amid the laughter of the company. "Jack!" cried Thames, in a loud voice, "you deserve to be hanged for a rebel as you are to your lawful king and your lawful master.
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