‘But it is not on the horse at all, Jacques. Without inquiring into the correctness of the latter part of the story, it may be sufficient to state, that Black Mary was a person in whom Jack Sheppard thought he could confide, and, as Edgeworth Bess was incapable of much further exertion, he determined to leave her in the old woman's care till the following night, while he shifted for himself and fulfilled his design—for, however rash or hazardous a project might be, if once conceived, Jack always executed it,—of visiting Jonathan Wild at his house in the Old Bailey. A native of Manchester, he was the son of Kenelm Kneebone, a staunch Catholic, and a sergeant of dragoons, who lost his legs and his life while fighting for James the Second at the battle of the Boyne, and who had little to bequeath his son except his laurels and his loyalty to the house of Stuart. “With your permission,” he said to Anna, “I shall arrange a bed for him where he is. One of the reasons why I left Paris and came to London was because there was a man there who wanted me to marry him. The arrested women were herded in a passage of the Panton Street Police-station that opened upon a cell too unclean for occupation, and most of them spent the night standing. It reminded her of one of the old tales her mother Marina had told her about a sculptor named Farhat. Knap. All the sombre visions she had been pressing back, fighting out of her thoughts, swarmed over the barrier and crushed her. Melusine, starved of colour for years, revelled in it.
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