‘Quite wrong, monsieur. On receiving the warning note from the ostler, Jack Sheppard and his companion left Willesden, and taking—as a blind—the direction of Harrow, returned at nightfall by a by-lane to Neasdon, and put up at a little public-house called the Spotted Dog. ‘You don’t favour her, bar the black hair. “I’ll buy a new one. ” He stood up and waited for her to move. However this may be, such was the ill report of the place that few passed along the Old Bailey without bestowing a glance of fearful curiosity at its dingy walls, and wondering what was going on inside them; while fewer still, of those who paused at the door, read, without some internal trepidation, the formidable name—inscribed in large letters on its bright brass-plate—of JONATHAN WILD. He temporized, and the girl raised her eyes once more to his. It was his heart. Her first impulse was to fly to the window; and she was about to pass through it, at the risk of sharing the fate of the unfortunate lady, when her arm was grasped by some one in the act of ascending the ladder from without. He was staring at her, openly gaping. “No!” he said aloud at last. He would have to sit down here in Canton and wait, perhaps for weeks. And she’s pluck to the backbone.
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