Give him this letter, child, and bid him take it to the Lodge at Newgate without loss of time. It would seem, from the attention which he evidently bestowed upon the hidden and complex machinery of the grand system of villany at work around him, that his chief object in taking up his quarters in the Mint, must have been to obtain some private information respecting the habits and practices of its inhabitants, to be turned to account hereafter. “Can you spare me forty pounds?” she said. He was content to talk about himself, though in the back of his clever mind he already suspected that she was not offering any details about her life. It was horrible, but what could she do? She meant to live her own life, and he meant, with contempt and insults, to prevent her. She was never violent when angry: she became as calm and baffling as the sea in doldrums. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed, in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. He had no wish to drag the footman out of his way, once he had got his questions answered. Being a Chinaman in blood and instinct, he despised all spinsters; they were parasites. "Dog!" cried Wild, freeing himself by a powerful effort, and dealing Jack a violent blow with the heavy bludgeon, which knocked him backwards, "you are not yet a match for Jonathan Wild.
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