"
"A friend is not so soon gained as lost," replied Wood; "but how has the
prediction been fulfilled, Joan, eh?"
"I thought you would have guessed, Sir," replied the widow, timidly. ’
Gerald could not resist. But to plunge blindly into the unknown!"
"I had to! I had to!"
She had told him only the first part of her story. She fought him at first, screaming at him, but he did not
relent. ToC
Jonathan Wild, meanwhile, had quitted the house. ”
“I’m afraid it can’t. ”
She shrugged her shoulders and led him towards a small recess. Of late, he has become
the instrument of Walpole, and does all the dirty work for the Secret Committee. Only one thing emerged with
any reasonable clarity in her mind at once, and that was that unless she was
saved from drowning by an unmarried man, in which case the ceremony is
unavoidable, or totally destitute of under-clothing, and so driven to get a
trousseau, in which hardship a trousseau would certainly be “ripping,” marriage
was an experience to be strenuously evaded. "But if my career were truly exhibited, it must be as
one long struggle against destiny in the shape of—"
"Jonathan Wild," interposed Gay. "
"That's impossible," replied Jack. She could not move. She longed to enjoy human food as he
did.
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