ToC Scarcely an hour after the horrible occurrence just related, as Jonathan Wild was seated in the audience-chamber of his residence at the Old Bailey, occupied, like Peachum, (for whose portrait he sat,) with his account-books and registers, he was interrupted by the sudden entrance of Quilt Arnold, who announced Jack Sheppard and Blueskin. "This," replied Jonathan, taking a paper from a portfolio, and handing it to the knight, "this written evidence, signed by Martha Cooper, the gipsy, by whom the girl was stolen, and who was afterwards executed for a similar crime. To his astonishment and delight it yielded to the pressure, toppled over the ledge, and sank. "By desire of his Majesty," said the jailer, consequentially. One or two of the tables were occupied by groups of fat frowzy women in flat caps, with rings on their thumbs, and baskets by their sides; and no one who had listened for a single moment to their coarse language and violent abuse of each other, would require to be told they were fish-wives from Billingsgate. It was hard to associate her with the stories which he and all Paris had heard of “Alcide. "I eat for both. " "Wretch!" cried Jack, raising his hand in a menacing manner, "your triumph will be short-lived. “We are to begin our married life to-night—here where I first met you. Pitt endeavoured to dissuade him from attending in person, representing the great risk he would incur from the mob, which was certain to be assembled. The crowning aspect of the incident, for her mind, was the discovery that he and her indiscretion with him no longer mattered very much. "Tom," continued Kneebone, calling to the shop-boy, "don't go home.
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