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"And terribly you have kept your vow," replied Mrs. “To be my eternal love. Do you know anything of his friends? Is there any one for whom we ought to
send?”
“I know very little of him beyond his name,” Anna answered. Her hair was held back in a filigreed barrette. It
suited him to dampen the spirits of any who sought to impose upon him, as these
relics of the loathed family of Valade seemed like to do. By Wild's command the prisoner was taken to the Condemned Hold, whither he
was followed by the whole posse of officers and by the partners; two of whom
carried large hammers and two the fetters. ToC
In consequence of Jack Sheppard's desperate character, it was judged expedient
by the keeper of the New Prison to load him with fetters of unusual weight, and
to place him in a cell which, from its strength and security, was called the
Newgate Ward. Now that she was his, to make or mar, she presented an extraordinary
fascination. “You mean to tell me” he said, “that you have a
lover? While I have been keeping you! Yes—keeping you!”
This view of life he hurled at her as if it were an offensive missile. All through that brief but measureless space of time during which
wonder kept him silent, as fear did her, she cowered there, a limp helpless object.
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