’
A trifle discomposed at being caught examining his surroundings, Gerald was
provoked into retort. 3. Without waiting to have the information repeated, Wood rushed forth,
determined as soon as he could procure assistance, to proceed to Jonathan Wild's
house in the Old Bailey; while Mrs. Next to the receiver was a gang of housebreakers, laughing over their exploits,
and planning fresh depredations; and next to the housebreakers came two
gallant-looking gentlemen in long periwigs and riding-dresses, and equipped in
all other respects for the road, with a roast fowl and a bottle of wine before them. It has been only the sort of nonsense which passes lightly enough
between half the men and women in London. In order to guard against accidents or surprises,
watchmen, or scouts, (as they were styled,) were stationed at the three main
outlets of the sanctuary ready to give the signal in the manner just described:
bars were erected, which, in case of emergency; could be immediately stretched
across the streets: doors were attached to the alleys; and were never opened
without due precautions; gates were affixed to the courts, wickets to the gates,
and bolts to the wickets. “You frighten me!”
He smiled at her indulgently. But in the appendix of
the dictionary she had discovered magic names—Hugo, Dumas, Thackeray,
Hawthorne, Lytton. “I saw you go into that
place, and I have been waiting for you ever since. ’
‘Of course I am, imbecile,’ she snapped, unconsciously echoing her greatniece. ”
“Quite true,” she answered briskly, “and thanks to you I have succeeded. The man muttered something inaudible, and gathered up the reins.
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