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. It was a mad half-hour. " With these words, he strode out of the room, darted down the stone stairs, and, on his arrival at the Lodge, seized the rope of the great bell communicating with the interior of the prison, which he rang violently. Skirting the noble gardens of Montague House, (now, we need scarcely say, the British Museum,) the party speedily reached Great Russell Street,—a quarter described by Strype, in his edition of old Stow's famous Survey, "as being graced with the best buildings in all Bloomsbury, and the best inhabited by the nobility and gentry, especially the north side, as having gardens behind the houses, and the prospect of the pleasant fields up to Hampstead and Highgate; insomuch that this place, by physicians, is esteemed the most healthful of any in London. “Now I should like to know,” she said, looking at him with a quiet smile, “what you are doing here? It is not a particularly inspiring neighbourhood for walking about by yourself. ’ Melusine’s voice petered out. Yet he was in a state of hopeless bewilderment. “Tell him that he is mad. Indeed, if he had been ignorant of it, the sound of voices which he could faintly distinguish, would have served as a caution to him. . 'He's a good fellow, and 'twill all end well'. He opened the door for her with a faint disagreeable smile. Love is a great thing, and happiness a joy. Spurlock gave his full name and tremblingly inscribed it upon the certificate of marriage.
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