"I mean to have no one but yourself in it. Her knees almost sank beneath her as she raised the latch of the front door and looked out. ‘Home?’ ‘To your family. And, setting down the link, he proceeded deliberately to untie his cravat. “You may go on with that work,” he said, “so long as you keep in harmony with things at home. 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. The hangman is always an object of peculiar detestation to the mob, a tremendous hooting hailed his appearance, and both staves and swords were required to preserve order. That he was immolating Ruth on the altar of his conscience never broke in upon his thought for consideration. ToC Nearly nine years after the events last recorded, and about the middle of May, 1724, a young man of remarkably prepossessing appearance took his way, one afternoon, along Wych Street; and, from the curiosity with which he regarded the houses on the left of the road, seemed to be in search of some particular habitation.
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