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CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH
THE SAPPHIRE RING
Part 1
For a time that ring set with sapphires seemed to be, after all, the satisfactory
solution of Ann Veronica’s difficulties. “Yes, John. ToC
Tyburn was now at hand. Gianfrancesco had
told her about it, how he had played in it as a child with
his brothers. He was accompanied by a young man of about
seven-and-twenty, who carried his easel, set it in its place, laid the canvass upon
it, opened the paint box, took out the brushes and palette, and, in short, paid him
the most assiduous attention. At least, I frustrated her design in calling
upon him this morning. “Which one?”
“The Miss Pellissier in whose rooms you were, and who sings at the ‘Unusual,’”
Courtlaw answered. I think you are hard. On that morning the death warrant had arrived from Windsor, ordering
Sheppard for execution, (since his capture by Jonathan Wild in Bedlam, as
related in a former chapter, Jack had been tried, convicted, and sentenced to
death,) together with three other malefactors on the following Friday. And he had gone away without knowing the
truth!
"My proa boys are ready; the wind is brisk; and in an hour we shall be beyond
all pursuit. Jack was so harrassed that he felt half inclined to stand at bay. By the light of a torch borne at the stern of the hostile wherry, he saw that the
pursuers had approached within a short distance of the object of their quest. I finally got my own
set of house keys when I turned eleven. “How dare you? You are trying to kidnap my babies!”
Clotilde demanded.
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