On an
empty cask, which served him for a chair, and opposite Jack Sheppard, whose
rapid progress in depravity afforded him the highest satisfaction, sat Blueskin,
encouraging the two women in their odious task, and plying his victim with the
glass as often as he deemed it expedient to do so. You need
give yourself no more concern about Kneebone. Not up here, I think. Tears
began to stream from her cheeks. I
know I am undeserving of your bounty; but if I were to tell you what hardships I
have undergone—to what frightful extremities I have been reduced—and to
what infamy I have submitted, to earn a scanty subsistence for this child's sake,
—if you could feel what it is to stand alone in the world as I do, bereft of all who
have ever loved me, and shunned by all who have ever known me, except the
worthless and the wretched,—if you knew (and Heaven grant you may be spared
the knowledge!) how much affliction sharpens love, and how much more dear to
me my child has become for every sacrifice I have made for him,—if you were
told all this, you would, I am sure, pity rather than reproach me, because I cannot
at once consent to a separation, which I feel would break my heart. "
"And why not, old saltwater?" inquired Ben, turning a quid in his mouth. Young and old were dressed in their gayest
apparel; and it was evident from the smiles that lighted up every countenance,
from the roguish looks of the younger swains, and the demure expression of
several pretty rustic maidens, that a ceremony, which never fails to interest all
classes,—a wedding,—was about to take place. The militia
were in already. Behind the illustrious personages just described marched a troop of stalwart
fellows, with white badges in their hats, quarterstaves, oaken cudgels, and links
in their hands. “John,” she said, “I am afraid that I am going to make you unhappy. To him she had always appeared as a mere pleasure-loving
parasite—something quite insignificant. His heir is dead, yes, and his name and title
available to me.
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