Ruth was not a woman; she was a phenomenon. "It is with no small concern," writes an anonymous historian of Newgate, "that I am obliged to observe that the women in every ward of this prison are exceedingly worse than the worst of the men not only in respect to their mode of living, but more especially as to their conversation, which, to their great shame, is as profane and wicked as hell itself can possibly be. She had been married four times: three of her husbands died of hempen fevers; and the fourth, having been twice condemned, was saved from the noose by Jonathan Wild, who not only managed to bring him off, but to obtain for him the situation of under-turnkey in Newgate. There came to Spurlock the recurrence of the grim resolution of what he had set out to do: that comradeship was all he might ever give this exquisite creature; for she was exquisite, and in a way she dominated this picture of sea and sky and sail. ” “A man does,” said Manning—“a true man, anyhow. It ought never to have begun. Glad you're home safe. She had often wondered if Hoddy would ever go back to it. It was scarcely likely that she would have accepted his aid. As for the doctor, he found a pleasure in this service that would have puzzled him had he paused to analyse it. I didn’t realize—I don’t see how I can get out of it now.
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