"I'm
quite at your disposal. I told him that
I was not ‘Alcide. Had it not been for the Plague, she might have had
her own babies. Fancying they were alone, Sir Rowland threw aside his cloak, and produced a
heavy bag of money, which he flung upon the table; and, when Wild had feasted
his greedy eyes sufficiently upon its golden contents, he handed him a pocketbook filled with notes. I overlooked the
mechanical imperfections of your work, the utter lack of finish, the crudeness of
your drawing. Her husband stared at her over the candle flame. . "You can render no further service to your
poor mother. They conversed, or more or less she interviewed him. I went at last when I had barely a shilling in
my purse to a dramatic agent. I tell you what, Thames," he added, flinging himself carelessly into a
chair, "I'd give my right hand,—and that's no light offer for a carpenter's
'prentice,—if that little minx were half as fond of me as she is of you. After pursuing the fugitive as before related, Jonathan Wild returned to his own
habitation, where he was occupied during the remainder of the night with Quilt
Arnold and Obadiah Lemon in removing everything which, in case of a search,
might tend to criminate him. "
"Why not?" rejoined Mrs. ToC
During the whole of the next day and night, the poor widow hovered like a ghost
about the precincts of the debtors' garrison,—for admission (by the Master's
express orders,) was denied her. Wild here presently, and I wouldn't for the
world—Zounds!" he exclaimed, as the figure of the thief-taker appeared at the
wicket, "here he is.
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