They had scarcely gained the adjoining cellar when Jonathan and the Jew rushed past in the direction of the vault. He uttered a short laugh. His mother used to live i' this village, just down yonder; but when her son took to bad ways, she went distracted,—and now she's i' Bedlam, I've heerd. Next instant he had her immobilised, her hands behind her back, her chest crushed to his, the white veil slipping once again. Her knees were trembling, her whole frame was shaken with sobs. “I haven’t a scrap—of this sort of aversion. On that night, an extraordinary event occurred, which convinced the authorities that every precaution must be taken in conducting Jack to Tyburn,—a fact of which they had been previously made aware, though scarcely to the same extent, by the riotous proceedings near Westminster Hall. "I am accounted a fair shot, as well as a tolerable swordsman, and I will give proof of my skill in both lines, should occasion require it. The whole was then fired, and in a few minutes the room was a blaze. Here Jack Sheppard was unable to repress an exclamation of astonishment. Only your pa knew as how I were the one as saw to you at the wet-nurse’s cottage, and he got a-hold of me and made me bring him to you. He had hurt her. They drove rapidly through the emptying streets. ToC Scarcely an hour after the horrible occurrence just related, as Jonathan Wild was seated in the audience-chamber of his residence at the Old Bailey, occupied, like Peachum, (for whose portrait he sat,) with his account-books and registers, he was interrupted by the sudden entrance of Quilt Arnold, who announced Jack Sheppard and Blueskin. ToC Sir Rowland, meantime, paced his chamber with a quick and agitated step.
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