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It was precisely two o'clock on the morning of Whit-monday, the 25th of May 1724, when the remarkable escape before detailed was completed: and, though it wanted full two hours to daybreak, the glimmer of a waning moon prevented it from being totally dark. ‘You!’ ‘Yes, it is I, mademoiselle,’ he continued in his own tongue. Her fingers were bursting through her gloves, as if to get at once into touch with Ann Veronica. You have never known what it is to want food, raiment, shelter. Just as he was preparing to follow, the wherry containing Rowland and his men, which had drifted in their wake, was dashed against his boat. Thames Street was wholly impassable. "I am surprised we have received no summons for attendance to-day," he remarked; "perhaps the other robber may be secured. ‘Ah, well, we’ll check the back and then go home. ToC At the beginning of the twelfth century,—whether in the reign of Henry the First, or Stephen is uncertain,—a fifth gate was added to the four principal entrances of the city of London; then, it is almost needless to say, surrounded by ramparts, moats, and other defences.
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