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Swain, who had just received her respite, sat next me; and on my left hand sat Lawrence, alias Woodman, surrounded by her four children, and only waiting the birth of another, which she hourly expects, to pay the forfeit of her life, as her husband has done for the same crime a short time before.
Jacques. "He is caught!" cried M. Verduret with delight. At that moment the door opened, and Mme. Nina Gypsy, alias Palmyre Chocareille, entered. Poor Nina! Each day spent in the service of Madeleine seemed to have aged her a year. Tears had dimmed the brilliancy of her beautiful black eyes; her rosy cheeks were pale and hollow, and her merry smile was quite gone.
No sooner said than done little Daniel was quickly transferred to the arms of the fair-haired and very beautiful young lady, and Netty, alias Susy, marched on in triumph. "That was well done; I call that young lady a brick," whispered Netty to Ben, but Ben replied: "Be quiet, and come along."
Thomas Bullaker, executed at Tyburne. Robert Robinson, indicted and proved, and made an escape out of the King's Bench. James Brown, condemned and died in Newgate. Henry Morse, executed at Tyburne. Thomas Worseley, alias Harvey, indicted and proved, and reprieved by the Spanish ambassador and others.
Discontent with class distinctions must arise so long as a man feels that his position in a class limits and cramps his capacities below the level of happier fortunes. Discontent is not altogether a bad thing, for it is often an alias for hope; remove all discontent and you remove all guarantee for improvement.
"We have got you this time!" I cried. "We know who you are, Dr. Polperro. You are Colonel Clay, alias Señor Antonio Herrera, alias the Reverend Richard Peploe Brabazon." I never saw any man so astonished in my life! He was utterly flabbergasted.
"Pitts Slim, alias Maloney," added Kennedy, turning to Blake, "your shrewdest private detective, was posing in two characters at once very successfully. He was your trusted agent in possession of the most valuable secrets of your clients, at the same time engineering all the robberies that you thought were fakes, and then working up the evidence incriminating the victims themselves.
"Well, I have seen ye afore now, but you've 'scaped from me, youngster." "I'm Billy, alias the Bu'ster, alias the Cork, alias Gaff " "What, Billy Gaff? Dead and come alive again!" cried Haco, springing up and seizing the youngster's hand.
And we ate the John Doree we had brought with us, and I thought it not worth all the talking about it I had heard; and, for the first time in my days or nights, I this night tasted a toombler of anti-Parliament whiskey, alias poteen, and water; and of all the detestable tastes that ever went into my mouth, or smells that ever went under my nose, I think this was the worst literally smoke and fire spirit.
I gave an involuntary half start at hearing the alias: I had forgotten my new name. Mr. Rivers, whom nothing seemed to escape, noticed it at once. "You said your name was Jane Elliott?" he observed. "I did say so; and it is the name by which I think it expedient to be called at present, but it is not my real name, and when I hear it, it sounds strange to me." "Your real name you will not give?"
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