"How, Sir?" "Except by adoption. She was afraid people would follow her, she was afraid of the dark, open doorways she passed, and afraid of the blazes of light; she was afraid to be alone, and she knew not what it was she feared. What you want to do is to imagine every woman a Becky Sharp and every man a Rawdon Crawley. 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. It was hard to associate her with the stories which he and all Paris had heard of “Alcide. Her disapproval was obvious enough. ‘Why, what have I said?’ ‘You said to me my name. “You little wretch!” she exclaimed weakly. Who could say that the girl's father had not once been a fashionable clergyman in the States and that drink had got him and forced him down, step by step, until—to use the child's odd expression—he had come upon the beach? She was cynical, this spinster. "Get it over quickly," said Trenchard, in a whisper to the thief-taker.
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