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"Oh!" exclaimed the widow, covering her face with her hands. Urging his steed along Oxford Road,—
as that great approach to the metropolis was then termed,—he soon passed
Marylebone Lane, beyond which, with the exception of a few scattered houses,
the country was completely open on the right, and laid out in pleasant fields and
gardens; nor did he draw in the rein until he arrived at Tyburn-gate, where,
before he turned off upon the Edgeware Road, he halted for a moment, to glance
at the place of execution. . The night his execution was therefore passed in a most anxious state of mind;
nor was his uneasiness allayed by the appearance of Jonathan Wild, who, after
he had been driven from the roof of the jail, repaired to the Middle Stone Ward
in a fit of ungovernable passion, to vent his rage upon the prisoner, whom he
looked upon as the cause of the present calamity. It remains a bizarre idea to me that Lucy
Alberti could ever become so detailed or so real, but
I’m certainly glad to have made her acquaintance. His thoughts, indeed, were too painful for utterance, and so acute
were his feelings, that, for some time, they quite overcame him. I’m glad you’re back for all sorts of reasons. I see that compromise is more necessary to life
than I ignorantly supposed it to be, and I have been trying to get Lord Morley’s
book on that subject, but it does not appear to be available in the prison library,
and the chaplain seems to regard him as an undesirable writer.
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