" "I thought you told me that the rascal who has so long been the terror of the town —Jack Sheppard—was in custody. ‘Nothing would do for her but to come here,’ grumbled Hilary, wiping his heated brow with a pocket handkerchief dragged from his immaculate white uniform breeches. I told him that I would help stage your kidnapping. ‘I would read your body,’ he whispered, and lifted her fingers to his lips. “Ferringhall, were you or were you not dining last night at a certain restaurant in the Boulevard des Italiennes with—la petite Pellissier?” Now indeed Sir John was moved. He ventured to the great gates, and by inserting his gimblets into the wood at intervals, so as to form points upon which he could rest his foot, he contrived, to ascend them; and when at the top, having fastened a portion of his dress to the spikes, he managed, not without considerable risk, to draw up his female companion. ‘I, on the other hand, want to help you to marry this Englishman. Yet, I suppose that at the present moment I am the most envied man in the room. She had, poor inexperienced fool, given herself away. Recurrently she heard: "I don't know; I really don't know. " "You will call for it before six months are passed," rejoined Jack, sternly. Here he was preparing to leap over the hedge into the fields on the left, when he was intercepted by two horsemen, who, hearing the shouts, rode up and struck at him with the butt-ends of their heavy riding-whips. Wood, who had been absent on business during the greater part of the day, returned (perhaps not altogether undesignedly) at an earlier hour than was expected, to his dwelling in Wych Street, Drury Lane; and was about to enter his workshop, when, not hearing any sound of labour issue from within, he began to suspect that an apprentice, of whose habits of industry he entertained some doubt, was neglecting his employment.
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