ToC Scarcely an hour after the horrible occurrence just related, as Jonathan Wild was seated in the audience-chamber of his residence at the Old Bailey, occupied, like Peachum, (for whose portrait he sat,) with his account-books and registers, he was interrupted by the sudden entrance of Quilt Arnold, who announced Jack Sheppard and Blueskin. As Leonardo had himself pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them away? ‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of an English lady. “You were booked of course. " "From some of your associates?" "From your uncle, from my uncle,—Sir Rowland Trenchard. ” They were eating quails when they returned to the topic of love. ‘Can you not open it?’ she cried. She felt the bedsprings coil as he moved from his seated position, entranced. Presently he became filled with astonishment over the singular fact that Ruth was eluding him in fancy as well as in reality.
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