He was no doubt doing his best to express the attitude of society toward these wearily heroic defendants, but he seemed to be merely rude and unfair to Ann Veronica. Her tone should have warned him, but he was too much in earnest to regard it. "Thank you, sir," said Spurlock, holding out his hand. " "You need never be afraid of that," returned Winifred, affectionately; "my father will take care you never leave him more. I don’t know. ’ ‘She told you!’ ‘And,’ pursued Gerald, ignoring his friend’s scornful interjection, ‘that it was not always convenient to be dressed as a young girl. Moored to the steps, several wherries were dancing in the rushing current, as if impatient of restraint. Gosse twisted his body to avoid another thrust, and the heavy candlesticks fell, rolling with a noise like thunder, and falling with a thud to the floor. She knew the story only imperfectly, and followed it now with a passionate and deepening interest. Jack, who had something of the Spartan in his composition, endured his martyrdom without flinching; and carried his stoical indifference so far, as even to make a mocking grimace in Sharples's face, while that amiable functionary thrust Thames into the recess beside him. Ann Veronica had no answer for a moment. Jack was almost afraid of speaking; but at length he summoned courage to call out "Mother!" "Who's there?" asked a faint voice from the bed. If he was asleep, then she much regretted that she must wake him up. The night his execution was therefore passed in a most anxious state of mind; nor was his uneasiness allayed by the appearance of Jonathan Wild, who, after he had been driven from the roof of the jail, repaired to the Middle Stone Ward in a fit of ungovernable passion, to vent his rage upon the prisoner, whom he looked upon as the cause of the present calamity. Her aunt went out of the room with dignity and a rustle, and up-stairs to the fastness of her own room.
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