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"Fill your glasses, gentlemen," observed Ireton, "and I'll tell you a droll thing Jack said this morning. Amongst others who came to see him, was a Mr. Kneebone, a woollen-draper in Wych Street, with whose pockets, it appears, Jack, when a lad, made a little too free.
And, for a man who'll never see sixty again, he's in excellent preservation, I assure you." "You delight me with the intelligence," said the stranger, entirely recovering his cheerfulness of look. "I began to fear, from his having quitted the old place, that some misfortune must have befallen him." "Quite the contrary," rejoined the woollen-draper, laughing good-humouredly.
"What threat?" asked Jackson. "Why, of hanging the fellow who acts as his jackal; one Blake, or Blueskin, I think he's called." "You've been misinformed, Sir," interposed Smith. "Mr. Wild is incapable of such baseness." "Bah!" returned the woollen-draper. "I see you don't know him as well as you pretend. Jonathan is capable of anything. He has hanged twelve of his associates already.
"I do not doubt it," retorted Winifred, scornfully; "because I attach credit neither to one nor the other. If Thames is murdered, you are his assassin. Let me go, Sir." The woollen-draper made no answer, but hastily starting up, bolted the door. "What do you mean?" cried Winifred in alarm. "Nothing more than to obtain a favourable answer to my suit," replied Kneebone.
Meanwhile, the service proceeded; and the awful command, "Thou shalt not steal!" was solemnly uttered by the preacher, when Mrs. Sheppard, who had again looked round towards her son, beheld a hand glance along the side of the woollen-draper.
"So she was," replied the woollen-draper, helping himself to an enormous pinch of snuff with the air of a man who does not dislike to be rallied about his gallantry, "so she was. But those days are over quite over. Since her husband has laid me under such a weight of obligation, I couldn't, in honour, continue hem!" and he took another explanatory pinch.
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