Chapter XVI THE DISCOMFITURE OF SIR JOHN Sir John looked from one to the other of the two sisters. You told him there wasn't anything in the pockets?" "Yes. 1. Afraid, no doubt, he thought grimly, that her other visitor would leave. She refused to eat. "I advised him not to trouble you farther about Jack Sheppard," answered the supposed janizary. "To be sure, it's not surprising the poor little thing should be so marked; for, when I lay in the women-felons' ward in Newgate, where he first saw the light, or at least such light as ever finds entrance into that gloomy place, I had nothing, whether sleeping or waking, but halters, and gibbets, and coffins, and such like horrible visions, for ever dancing round me! And then, you know, Sir—but, perhaps, you don't know that little Jack was born, a month before his time, on the very day his poor father suffered. The question ceased to be a tea-table talk, and became suddenly tragically real for Ann Veronica. ‘I’ve had enough of this. It’s the poor dears who do, who know they will, know they can’t keep it up, who need to clutch at way-side flowers. At the recollection that it was his, she seemed to fall through a thin surface, as one might fall through the crust of a lava into glowing depths.
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