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. Here, without a glimpse of daylight; visited by no one except Austin at stated intervals, who neither answered a question nor addressed a word to him; fed upon the worst diet, literally mouldy bread and ditch-water; surrounded by stone walls; with a flagged floor for his pillow, and without so much as a blanket to protect him from the death-like cold that pierced his frame,—Jack's stout heart was subdued, and he fell into the deepest dejection, ardently longing for the time when even a violent death should terminate his sufferings. ‘—and what do I do? Well, we know what I do. She glanced into her companion’s face, and she saw there strange things. “I have had adventures—oh, more than one, I can assure you. ” “It presented a large impenetrable back, and went on thinking about something else. “Why, among other things, did I put my knuckles in his neck—deliberately to hurt him?” She tried to sound the humorous note. Manning came into her thoughts again, an unexpected, tall, dark, self-contained presence at the Fadden. Courtlaw, who was sitting by the bedside, bent over him. " "Leave us together, my good woman," said Jack, putting a guinea into her hand. Good night. You will leave me utterly distraught. But what did the occupant of the box care? The laugh was always with the dead: they were out of the muddle. Having seen him heavily ironed, and placed in the Condemned Hold, Jonathan recrossed the street.
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